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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.

Bjork

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.
BJORK

Artist Color Image Writing
I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
BJORK

Amateur Going Knows People Politics Talk
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
BJORK

Chemistry Song Sound
It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
BJORK

Care Females People
Most 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.
BJORK

Developed Emotion Music Photograph Understanding
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.
BJORK

Book Movie Ourselves Understanding
Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
BJORK

Cutting Physical Sound Technology
You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
BJORK

Coward Something Stand
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
BJORK

Country Iceland Place War
The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
BJORK

Interviews Reason Song
You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
BJORK

Life Lying Poet
Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
BJORK

Albums People Years
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
BJORK

Done Person Song Time Tunes
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
BJORK

Celebration Oxygen Singing
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.
BJORK

Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORK

Everything Guy Say Times

You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.

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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.

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