I’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.
BJORKThere 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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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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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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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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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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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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Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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