National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
BJORKWhen I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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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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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
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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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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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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 feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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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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