I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
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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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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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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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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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.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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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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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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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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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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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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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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I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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