I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORKEvery time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
More Bjork Quotes
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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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There’s more to Life than this
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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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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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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.
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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’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 just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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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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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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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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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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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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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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