It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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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 get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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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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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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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’m a whisper in water.
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I’ve always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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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 want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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