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.
BJORKI’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
More Bjork Quotes
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I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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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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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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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 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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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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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 am grateful… grapefruit.
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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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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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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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