If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
BJORKAs a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
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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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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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Love is a two way dream.
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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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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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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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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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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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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
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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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I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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