They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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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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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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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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When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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Love is a two way dream.
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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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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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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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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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