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.
BJORKIf you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
More Bjork Quotes
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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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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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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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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 am grateful… grapefruit.
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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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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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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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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