How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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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There’s more to Life than this
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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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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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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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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
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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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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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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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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.
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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 you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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