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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.

Bjork

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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Format People Product Religious Song
When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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Boring Happen Nothing Predicatable
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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Electronic Music Rocks World Years
I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Blood Body Girl
I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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Easy Ipads Powered Wind
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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Done Person Song Time Tunes
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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Labels Lemurs Sharks
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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Faced Girl Guilty Leaned Ten Years
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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Criminals People Vampire
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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Singers Songwriter Writing
It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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Becomes Long Take Time
Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
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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Needs People Physically Wants
Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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Energy Ideas Want
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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Contradiction Country Everywhere Relationship
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Celebration Oxygen Singing
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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Guatemala House Sticks
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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Fan Mean Pirate Somebody Thinking
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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Arrogant People Quiet Thinking
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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Beard Hermits Style
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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Country Iceland Rocks Teenager
People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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People Understated Vision
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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Age Century Collaborate Emergencies
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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Embrace Thinking Years
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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Energy Males Women
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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Broken Cracks Day Wake
Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
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Kids Thinking Writing

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