All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
BJORKI do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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There’s more to Life than this
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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.
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I 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.
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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
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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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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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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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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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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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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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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 just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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