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BJORKIf 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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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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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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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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Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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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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I mean, I’ve never been thinking that if you’re a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you’ve got a choice. If you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files.
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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.
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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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