65 Quotes by Tarja Turunen

Sometimes a song can be born in few minutes, if the feeling is right, some other times it can take days.

I think it's really important to be humble for the music because there is always someone better than you, there is always something new for you to learn for music and you can't be the best in the world. It makes you work very hard.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

I was kind of, I would say, even obsessed with music. I wanted to start learning piano when I was six years old, and after that, my parents were very supportive and they took me to several kinds of music lessons. So music filled all my childhood.

For me, there are no borders in music in general.

I like to keep the big dynamic changes between my songs, so that album songs feel radically different from each other.

I was with Nightwish for such a long time that I still feel the band as a part of myself. I was one of the most important elements in Nightwish for nine years, and the band was an essential part of myself too.

I am sure that everyone will immediately discover how much 'The Brightest Void' and 'The Shadow Self' are entwined with each other but, at the same time, are two independent records which stand on their own.