Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
BJORKNational Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
More Bjork Quotes
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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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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Nature is our chapel.
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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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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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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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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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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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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