You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
BJORKMaybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
More Bjork Quotes
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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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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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.
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Nature is our chapel.
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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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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 whisper in water.
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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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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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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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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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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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