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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.

Bjork

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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News Political Reading
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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Criminals People Vampire
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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Country Iceland Rocks Teenager
I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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Albums Narcissistic Three
Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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Developed Emotion Music Photograph Understanding
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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Biophilia Done Strange Trying
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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Country Criticism People
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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Confused Know More People Please
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Celebration Oxygen Singing
i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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Eye Eyes Harm Self Slamming Sound Suicide
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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Best Low Possible Quality Rocking Sound Want
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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Conservative Part People Probably Sake
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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Kids Thinking Writing
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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Beginning Perfect Records Stick Thinking
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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Singers Songwriter Writing
It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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Important Options Something Study

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.

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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.

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