They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
BJORKBeing a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
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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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There’s more to Life than this
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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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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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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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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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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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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 guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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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.
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But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
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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 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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