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.
BJORKI don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
More Bjork Quotes
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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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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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
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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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I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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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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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 think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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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 don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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