I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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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There’s more to Life than this
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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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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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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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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For 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.
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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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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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