If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
BJORKIt seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
More Bjork Quotes
-
-
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
BJORK -
I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
BJORK -
Nature is our chapel.
BJORK -
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
BJORK -
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.
BJORK -
If nothing else, I have money.
BJORK -
The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
BJORK -
There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
BJORK -
Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
BJORK -
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.
BJORK -
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
BJORK -
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
BJORK -
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORK -
Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
BJORK -
Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
BJORK -
Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
BJORK -
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.
BJORK -
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
BJORK -
I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
BJORK -
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
BJORK -
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.
BJORK -
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.
BJORK -
If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
BJORK -
People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
BJORK -
What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
BJORK -
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.
BJORK