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 find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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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 get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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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’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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But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
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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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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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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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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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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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I 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.
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