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.
BJORKI’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.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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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 have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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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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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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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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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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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I 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.
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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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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.
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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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I’ve always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
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There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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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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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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