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.
BJORKEmotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
More Bjork Quotes
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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 embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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I’m a whisper in water.
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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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But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
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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 that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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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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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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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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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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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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