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.
BJORKIt’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.
More Bjork Quotes
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
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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.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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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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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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