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.
BJORKPart 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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It’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.
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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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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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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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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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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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And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
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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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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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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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Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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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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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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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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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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Love is a two way dream.
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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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