Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
BJORKThere is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
More Bjork Quotes
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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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.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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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I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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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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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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I 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.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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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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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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