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.
BJORKYou’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
More Bjork Quotes
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If nothing else, I have money.
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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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I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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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’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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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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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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