They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
BJORKI just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
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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.
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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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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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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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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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.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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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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