I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
BJORKI’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.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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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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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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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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i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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