When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
BJORKFor a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
More Bjork Quotes
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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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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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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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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If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
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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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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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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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I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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