You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
BJORKI definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
More Bjork Quotes
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
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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 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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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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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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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.
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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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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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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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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
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i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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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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