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Bjork

Nature is our chapel.
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Chapel Nature Our
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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Blood Girl Leave Whale
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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News Political Reading
I am grateful… grapefruit.
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Fruit Grapes Grateful Honor
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
We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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Either Mourning Unwritten Windows
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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Cds Listening Way
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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Country Criticism People
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
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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Illusion Iron Make Mold Music Relationship
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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Best Low Possible Quality Rocking Sound Want
Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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Cutting Physical Sound Technology
You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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Life Lying Poet
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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Evening Morning Up Wake
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
Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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Blue Dark Evil
Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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Every Format Mold Time
I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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Different Together Way
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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Century Forward Way Wind
Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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Done Educate People Thinking Year
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Asking Iceland People
I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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Bothered Ego Really
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
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
I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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Music Paper People Something
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
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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Chemistry Song Sound

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