Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
BJORKWhat probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
More Bjork Quotes
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I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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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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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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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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Love is a two way dream.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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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’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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