I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
BJORKI 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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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.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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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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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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