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Bjork

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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Faced Girl Guilty Leaned Ten Years
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
BJORK

Energy Males Women
I mean, I’ve never been thinking that if you’re a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you’ve got a choice. If you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files.
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Fan Mean Pirate Somebody Thinking
Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
BJORK

Interesting Rocks Turning
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
BJORK

Celebration Oxygen Singing
Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
BJORK

Done Educate People Thinking Year
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.
BJORK

Important Options Something Study
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.
BJORK

Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
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.
BJORK

Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
BJORK

Beard Hermits Style
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.
BJORK

Chorus Song Writing
They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
BJORK

Design Horrible Sound Telephone
People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
BJORK

People Understated Vision
It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
BJORK

Conservatives Hands Hippie Upper
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
BJORK

Money Pay Stuff Trying
But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
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Emotional Movement Political

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