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.
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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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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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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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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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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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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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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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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