Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
BJORKThere are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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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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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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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.
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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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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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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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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
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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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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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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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