I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
BJORKYou 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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If nothing else, I have money.
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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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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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I’ve always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
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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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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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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.
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