Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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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 get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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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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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
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