I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORKNow that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
More Bjork Quotes
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Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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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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Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
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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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I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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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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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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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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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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People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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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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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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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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