I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
BJORKThe 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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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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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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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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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There’s more to Life than this
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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.
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There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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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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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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It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
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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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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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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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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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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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