Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
BJORKI 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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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’m a whisper in water.
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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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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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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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I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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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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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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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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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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