It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
BJORKThey design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
More Bjork Quotes
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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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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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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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’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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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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When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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I’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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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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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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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’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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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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