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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.

Bjork

Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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Developed Emotion Music Photograph Understanding
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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Getting Hands High Hunting
A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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Best Low Possible Quality Rocking Sound Want
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.
BJORK

Generation Parent Strong Thinking
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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Done Person Song Time Tunes
I’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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Appreciate Chemistry Friend Growing People
The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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Interviews Reason Song
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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Cents Cords Humidity Vocal
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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Artist Color Image Writing
It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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Cities Eye Great Look Thinking
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Asking Iceland People
I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
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Music People Soul
Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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Declare Independence Let
I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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Havens Mets Missing
I mean, I’ve never been thinking that if you’re a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you’ve got a choice. If you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files.
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Fan Mean Pirate Somebody Thinking
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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Song Thinking Visualized Writing

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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