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.
BJORKI am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
More Bjork Quotes
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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Nature is our chapel.
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I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
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It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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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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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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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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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 think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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