I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
BJORKI 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
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Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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I’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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