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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.

Bjork

A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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Best Low Possible Quality Rocking Sound Want
I’m a whisper in water.
BJORK

Emotion Water White
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
BJORK

Beginning Perfect Records Stick Thinking
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
BJORK

Embrace Thinking Years
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.
BJORK

Everything Example Nothing Perfect Smooth
If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
BJORK

Found Home Hunting Stopping
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.
BJORK

Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
I am grateful… grapefruit.
BJORK

Fruit Grapes Grateful Honor
Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
BJORK

Emotion Feel Lying Powerful Probably
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
BJORK

Buddhist Enlightenment Hope
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.
BJORK

Apples Done Punk
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.
BJORK

Done Educate People Thinking Year
I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
BJORK

Blood Body Girl
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.
BJORK

Chorus Song Writing
I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
BJORK

Composition Country Firsts Iceland
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
BJORK

Song Thinking Visualized Writing

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