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.
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 don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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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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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 definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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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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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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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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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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If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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