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.
BJORKOver the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
More Bjork Quotes
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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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 want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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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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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 love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
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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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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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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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All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
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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!’
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