I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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.
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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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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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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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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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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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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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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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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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Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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