I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
BJORKI’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
More Bjork Quotes
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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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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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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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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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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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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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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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
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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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