I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
BJORKMost people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
More Bjork Quotes
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Nature is our chapel.
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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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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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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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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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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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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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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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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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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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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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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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