Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
BJORKI learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
More Bjork Quotes
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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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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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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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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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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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I 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.
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I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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