Tag: bands

“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.” – Agnetha Faltskog

“I had a dream and it was fulfilled by meeting with Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha.” – Anni-Frid Lyngstad

“We don’t want to write political songs. We don’t want to turn our records into speeches.” – Benny Andersson

“There’s a real melancholy in [Abba’s] songs… all the flourishes, like big double octaves on the piano. We stole them like crazy.” – Elvis Costello

“I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.” – Lasse Hallstrom

“I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.” – Elaine Paige

“I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.” – Pete Waterman

“I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.” – Martin Fry

“You’re not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It’s nerdy.” – Izabella Scorupco