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.
BJORKPart of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
More Bjork Quotes
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How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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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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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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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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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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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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