But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
BJORKPersonally, 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.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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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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Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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Nature is our chapel.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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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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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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