Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
BJORKI was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
More Bjork Quotes
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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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I am grateful… grapefruit.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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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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Nature is our chapel.
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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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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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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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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I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
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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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People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
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If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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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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If nothing else, I have money.
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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 do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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Part 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.
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