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.
BJORKEverything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
More Bjork Quotes
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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I 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.
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And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
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I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
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I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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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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Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
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I’ve always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
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Love is a two way dream.
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