I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
BJORKThe English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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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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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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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 have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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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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I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
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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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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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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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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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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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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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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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