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Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.

Bjork

I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
BJORK

Beginning Perfect Records Stick Thinking
i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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Eye Eyes Harm Self Slamming Sound Suicide
I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
BJORK

Composition Country Firsts Iceland
Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
BJORK

Illusion Iron Make Mold Music Relationship
What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
BJORK

Confused Know More People Please
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.
BJORK

Done Educate People Thinking Year
I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
BJORK

Guatemala House Sticks
I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
BJORK

Blood Body Girl
I’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.
BJORK

Format People Product Religious Song
I am grateful… grapefruit.
BJORK

Fruit Grapes Grateful Honor
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.
BJORK

Done Person Song Time Tunes
When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
BJORK

Chorus Song Writing
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.
BJORK

Course Looks People Silly Walk
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.
BJORK

Albums People Years
I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
BJORK

Different Together Way
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
BJORK

Chemistry Song Sound

Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.

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