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Bjork

It’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.
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Creative Good Relationships Work
You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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Failing Great People Risk Safe
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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Care Females People
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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Chorus Song Writing
Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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Cake Choosing Flavors Ice Cream Personally Women
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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Albums People Years
It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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Cities Eye Great Look Thinking
You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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Back Done Few Inspired Show
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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Believe Interview Spirit
Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
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Country Healthy Iceland
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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Criminals People Vampire
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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News Political Reading
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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Kids Thinking Writing
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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Eggs Football Sorry
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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Few Hour Invited Learned might Obsessed Practiced
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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Century Forward Way Wind
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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Boring Happen Nothing Predicatable
What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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Confused Know More People Please
The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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Interviews Reason Song
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Everything Guy Say Times
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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Behavior Helping Maps
You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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Life Lying Poet
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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Good Internet People Stylist Very
I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
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Awards Eggs Input
There’s more to Life than this
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Life Magical More
I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
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Communicate Easily People Scare Self
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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Energy Ideas Want

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