People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
BJORKIf you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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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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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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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 feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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Nature is our chapel.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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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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I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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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.
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I’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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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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I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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