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.
BJORKI feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
More Bjork Quotes
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A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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I’m a whisper in water.
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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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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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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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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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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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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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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Love is a two way dream.
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