There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
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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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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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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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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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Nature is our chapel.
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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.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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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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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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