I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORKI’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
More Bjork Quotes
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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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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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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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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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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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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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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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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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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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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