Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
BJORKWith tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
More Bjork Quotes
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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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’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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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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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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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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Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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Love is a two way dream.
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Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
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Nature is our chapel.
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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 was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
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You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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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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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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