I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORKIt wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
More Bjork Quotes
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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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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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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I mean, I’ve never been thinking that if you’re a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you’ve got a choice. If you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files.
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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’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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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. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
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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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