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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.

Bjork

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.
BJORK

Failing Great People Risk Safe
It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
BJORK

Conservatives Hands Hippie Upper
I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
BJORK

Blogger Depend Jockey Recommended Something
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.
BJORK

Done Person Song Time Tunes
How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
BJORK

Dream Lazy Love Thinking
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.
BJORK

Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
BJORK

Ending Hear Pop Record Subconsciousness
I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
BJORK

Havens Mets Missing
You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
BJORK

Life Lying Poet
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
BJORK

Chemistry Song Sound
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.
BJORK

Best Low Possible Quality Rocking Sound Want
When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
BJORK

Apples Done Punk
Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
BJORK

Illusion Iron Make Mold Music Relationship
I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
BJORK

Composition Country Firsts Iceland
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
BJORK

Broken Cracks Day Wake
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
BJORK

Buddhist Enlightenment Hope

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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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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