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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

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.
BJORK

Good Internet People Stylist Very
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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Embrace Thinking Years
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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Buddhist Enlightenment Hope
Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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Emotion Feel Lying Powerful Probably
I’m a whisper in water.
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Emotion Water White
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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Artist Color Image Writing
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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Believe Interview Spirit
Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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Every Format Mold Time
And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
BJORK

Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof
You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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Failing Great People Risk Safe
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
You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
BJORK

Life Lying Poet
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.
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Ending Hear Pop Record Subconsciousness
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
There 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.
BJORK

Book Movie Ourselves Understanding
Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
BJORK

Cutting Physical Sound Technology
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.
BJORK

Eye Eyes Harm Self Slamming Sound Suicide
Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
BJORK

Interesting Rocks Turning
Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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Blue Dark Evil
I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
BJORK

Music People Soul
If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
BJORK

Found Home Hunting Stopping
I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
BJORK

Easy Ipads Powered Wind
Nature is our chapel.
BJORK

Chapel Nature Our
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 love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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Scientists Singers Songwriter
I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Blood Body Girl
I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
BJORK

Communicate Easily People Scare Self

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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