Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
BJORKThere’s more to Life than this
More Bjork Quotes
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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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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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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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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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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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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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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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