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.
BJORKHow could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
More Bjork Quotes
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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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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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Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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Now that rock is turning 50, it’s become classical in itself. It’s interesting to see that development.
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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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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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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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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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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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