I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
BJORKI 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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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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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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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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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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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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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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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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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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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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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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