I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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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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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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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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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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.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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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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I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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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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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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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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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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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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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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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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