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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.

Bjork

I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
BJORK

Music Paper People Something
When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
BJORK

Chorus Song Writing
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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Song Thinking Visualized Writing
I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
BJORK

Blood Body Girl
We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
BJORK

Either Mourning Unwritten Windows
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
BJORK

Singers Songwriter Writing
I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
BJORK

Ending Hear Pop Record Subconsciousness
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
BJORK

Broken Cracks Day Wake
It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
BJORK

Cities Eye Great Look Thinking
If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
BJORK

Few Hour Invited Learned might Obsessed Practiced
Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
BJORK

Illusion Iron Make Mold Music Relationship
Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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Every Format Mold Time
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
BJORK

Asking Iceland People
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
BJORK

Country Iceland Place War
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
BJORK

Artist Color Image Writing
Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
BJORK

Albums People Years

I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.

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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.

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