I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
BJORKWe’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.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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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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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 am grateful… grapefruit.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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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 feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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