Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
BJORKWhen 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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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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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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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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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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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
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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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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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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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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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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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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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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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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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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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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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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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