I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
BJORKI am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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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.
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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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 knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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I mean, I’ve never been thinking that if you’re a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you’ve got a choice. If you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files.
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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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Personally, 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.
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I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
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Love is a two way dream.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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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 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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I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
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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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All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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