When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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More Bjork Quotes
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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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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Love is a two way dream.
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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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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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In 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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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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Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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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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Nature is our chapel.
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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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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 that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
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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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Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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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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