I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
BJORKI try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
More Bjork Quotes
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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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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I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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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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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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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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There’s more to Life than this
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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