I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
BJORKI’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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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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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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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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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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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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It’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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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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And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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