I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORKI have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
More Bjork Quotes
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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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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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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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 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 don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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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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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 try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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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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It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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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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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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