Bjork Quotes
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I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
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Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.
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I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
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A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
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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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With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.
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I think connecting natural elements and musicology is probably pretty idiosyncratic of me, so it is hard to imagine anyone else going down that route.
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Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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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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Nature is our chapel.
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Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
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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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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
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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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.
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In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
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I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.