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.
BJORKEverything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
More Bjork Quotes
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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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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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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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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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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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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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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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Nature is our chapel.
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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There’s more to Life than this
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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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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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