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.
BJORKIf travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
More Bjork Quotes
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
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But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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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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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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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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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.
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I’m a whisper in water.
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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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