As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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 am grateful… grapefruit.
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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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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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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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Icelandic 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.
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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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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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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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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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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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I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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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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