Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
BJORKI’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.
More Bjork Quotes
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National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
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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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Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
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If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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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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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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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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There 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.
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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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