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Kygo Quotes

When I started making my tracks in the style that people call tropical house, I didn’t do it on purpose to make it sound tropical. I made whatever I felt sounded good. I just wanted to make my own thing, and then suddenly people started calling it tropical … I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s probably a good name for it.’

– Kygo

Avicii’s melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if I could teach myself how to produce and get those melodies out of my head and into the computer, maybe I could make some cool music, too.

– Kygo

The opportunity to be a part of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio is a huge milestone in my career, and it will be the biggest performance of my life.

– Kygo

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.

– Kygo

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert – that feels really good.

– Kygo

It was the fans sharing my music around that started it all for me.

– Kygo

I really like streaming services. It’s a great way for people to find your music.

– Kygo

SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university, and it means a lot that they’re supporting my music as I prepare to release my debut album, ‘Cloud Nine.’

– Kygo

I get inspired by a lot of different stuff. My father is a huge music fan.

– Kygo

Making music all the time was my dream.

– Kygo

I don’t really know too many designers. I like a lot of what Kanye West has done with Yeezy, but I think it’s a bit too, how you say, elevated; it’s a little bit too special. Like he’s trying to make something that’s kind of a little bit too cool sometimes.

– Kygo

I just want to keep challenging myself and keep, like, trying new things.

– Kygo

I didn’t think it was cool for me to walk around with a huge Kygo logo on myself.

– Kygo

There’s nothing like playing at home.

– Kygo

I’m just trying to experiment with a lot of different stuff and see what comes out of it.

– Kygo

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

– Kygo

I’ve been a sports fan forever.

– Kygo

If I never showed my face, it would kind of be easier.

– Kygo

I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.

– Kygo

I’ve really enjoyed working together with Apple to help launch their new streaming service. It is really cool to see Apple getting involved.

– Kygo

Coldplay doesn’t have to stay within a certain genre; they just go where they go.

– Kygo

I think my music covers a broader sound than just ‘Tropical House’… My goal is to simply be a great producer in my own right without being pigeonholed.

– Kygo

‘Coming Over’ was probably the fastest collaboration I’ve ever done.

– Kygo

I love finding talents to pair my music with such as Conrad on ‘Firestone’, Parson James with ‘Stole the Show,’ and Will Heard on ‘Nothing Left.’

– Kygo

It’s kind of hard when you’re on the road all the time, from one show to the next, from one hotel room to the next hotel room, it’s kind of hard to think about everything.

– Kygo

I don’t like to classify my own tracks as a genre.

– Kygo

Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.

– Kygo

I hate being put in a box labelled ‘tropical house.’

– Kygo

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

– Kygo

I like to try to keep my music happy because it can make other people happy. And that’s the way I feel when I listen to Avicii’s songs. I get happy because his melodies are so happy.

– Kygo

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