I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
BJORKIcelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
More Bjork Quotes
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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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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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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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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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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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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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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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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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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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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