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!’
BJORKAll we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
More Bjork Quotes
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If nothing else, I have money.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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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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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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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.
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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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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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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 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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With 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.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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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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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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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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