It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
BJORKI find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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You shouldn’t let poets lie 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 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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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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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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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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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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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’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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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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