Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
BJORKI learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
More Bjork Quotes
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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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