I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
BJORKI find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
BJORKEverything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORKWhen 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.
BJORKYou get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
BJORKIt’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.
BJORKWe’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.
BJORKI don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
BJORKSinging is like a celebration of oxygen.
BJORKThere’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
BJORKAll we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
BJORKI’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
BJORKI 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.
BJORKAs a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
BJORKI guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORKMaybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
BJORKSeventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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