It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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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’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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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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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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’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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