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.
BJORKIf I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
More Bjork Quotes
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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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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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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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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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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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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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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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