It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
BJORKPeople from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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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.
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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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All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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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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And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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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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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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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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Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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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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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.
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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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