There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
BJORKIn 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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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’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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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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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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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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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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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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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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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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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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Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie 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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I’ve always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
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Love is a two way dream.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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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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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 was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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Nature is our chapel.
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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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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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