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.
BJORKI love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
More Bjork Quotes
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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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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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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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 incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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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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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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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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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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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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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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