When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
BJORKWhen I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
More Bjork Quotes
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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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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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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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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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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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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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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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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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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