Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
BJORKEmotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
More Bjork Quotes
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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 have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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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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’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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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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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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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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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Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
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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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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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