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Bjork

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 feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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Age Century Collaborate Emergencies
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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Country Iceland Place War
You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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Life Lying Poet
I’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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Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
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Amateur Going Knows People Politics Talk
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Five Guy Imagining Things
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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Failing Great People Risk Safe
Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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Age Feminist Maybe Old
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
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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Chorus Song Writing
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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Embrace Thinking Years
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Celebration Oxygen Singing
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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Complaining School Students
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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Beard Hermits Style
I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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Music Paper People Something

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