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.
BJORKAll we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
More Bjork Quotes
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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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I mean, I’ve never been thinking that if you’re a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you’ve got a choice. If you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files.
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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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Nature is our chapel.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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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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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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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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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
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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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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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