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.
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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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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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.
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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Nature is our chapel.
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If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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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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Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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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’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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Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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Love is a two way dream.
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