I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
BJORKPedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
More Bjork Quotes
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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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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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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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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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Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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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.
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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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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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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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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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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’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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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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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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