Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
BJORKI don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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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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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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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.
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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 always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
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