There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
BJORKWhat probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
More Bjork Quotes
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It’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.
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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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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 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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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
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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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It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
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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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There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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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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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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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 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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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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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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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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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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