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.
BJORKI have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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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 have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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I’m a whisper in water.
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Love is a two way dream.
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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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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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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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Nature is our chapel.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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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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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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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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I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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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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Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
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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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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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