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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.

Bjork

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
BJORK

Believe Interview Spirit
It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
BJORK

Cities Eye Great Look Thinking
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
BJORK

Evening Morning Up Wake
If nothing else, I have money.
BJORK

Else Money Nothing
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.
BJORK

Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
BJORK

Awards Eggs Input
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORK

Guess Understood Used
People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
BJORK

Needs People Physically Wants
It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
BJORK

Conservatives Hands Hippie Upper
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.
BJORK

Country Iceland Rocks Teenager
I’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
BJORK

Appreciate Chemistry Friend Growing People
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
BJORK

Celebration Oxygen Singing
It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
BJORK

Everybody Getting Journalist Wrong
Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
BJORK

Cake Choosing Flavors Ice Cream Personally Women
I am grateful… grapefruit.
BJORK

Fruit Grapes Grateful Honor
I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
BJORK

Ending Hear Pop Record Subconsciousness

I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.

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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.

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