Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORKI’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
More Bjork Quotes
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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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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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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Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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You 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.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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I 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.
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I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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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.
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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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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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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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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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I’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.
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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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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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