Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
BJORKI feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
More Bjork Quotes
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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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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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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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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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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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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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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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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