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.
BJORKI don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
More Bjork Quotes
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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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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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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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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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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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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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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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All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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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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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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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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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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When 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.
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People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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Everything 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.
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