I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
BJORKThey design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
More Bjork Quotes
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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’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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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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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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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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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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