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You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.

Yukimi Nagano

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Yukimi Nagano
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 31
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Göteborg
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Grow
People
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On stage, that for me is a space I really love to be in. It's a time to really get drawn into the music and the moment with my friends. It's the best reminder of the reason why we're doing what we're doing.
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To foster creativity, I think a little pressure can be good, but stress isn't good. Knowing that you have a defined window of time and you're going to dedicate your attention to it is a positive - but you can't think of it as needing a track that's going to change your life.
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If you're just starting off as an artist, steal as much inspiration from everything you like, as much as you can. Take from books, from poets, from musicians. Just steal stuff from all over the place and then mix it up to make something of your own.
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A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.
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Most of the producers I work with are decent mixers. We'll wind up in these spots where I'll get the mix back and I'll put a few more pieces of production together and send it back to the mixer. It's so easy to change the entire perspective of the song by changing the mix.
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You want inspiration to come in a natural way and let it happen when it's going to happen. The last thing you want is this ghost looming over you saying it has to be good - remember that feeling of loving what you do, and don't let the business aspect murder that. It takes away the creativity for me.
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My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.
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It can be tricky with branding these days, because everything is kind of branded.
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I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space.
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Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an opinion from the manager. Now, I'm so much more conscious and it bothers me. I try to find my way back to writing without being too analytical or not thinking about whether this is good or is it bad.
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It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.
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Once you've had a real taste of touring it's like, Okay, it's pretty amazing that we have real fans and we can go out and play shows, but you start to feel a personal need, like, Okay, I think it's time to go home for a minute.
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I've worked with a lot of different producers, a lot of different writers on the album, so I mostly feel like I learned a lot about what I don't want to do the next time around.
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I think most people get hit by the music first and you can be singing along and realize a song has this melancholy feel. As Swedes, I think we see a beauty in melancholy. You're heartbroken, you're looking out the window and you feel really at ease in the pain. I have so many memories as a teenager with music, sad music, but I was just so into it.
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We've been fortunate enough to have a lot of people to ask us to be on their records - so many artists and musicians that we really respect and look up to. And it's been really special. But from our side, there's so much that we in the Little Dragon are still learning about ourselves writing-wise that I guess we haven't had that need.
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I think most people are many-sided you have your evil side, your happy side, your spaced-out side. You try to stay on the positive side more - I mean, I try to - but I think we all have those different faces of ourselves.
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Swedes, compared to Americans, can seem a little cold and introverted.
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I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.
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I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.
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Have your own definition of success. Figure it out for yourself. If you really want to be the next Rihanna or whatever you've got to understand what that takes. Or if you want to be the Brian Eno - or whatever it is - who knows? Define for yourself what success means.
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