I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
BJORKThe reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
More Bjork Quotes
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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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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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’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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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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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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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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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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