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.
BJORKMaybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
More Bjork Quotes
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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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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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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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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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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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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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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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 am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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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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I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
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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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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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