What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
BJORKI’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.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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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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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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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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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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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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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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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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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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