Bjork Quotes
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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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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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There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
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I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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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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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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The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
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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. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.
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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 love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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I 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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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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I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It's common, it's in our nature as animals, like the birds of paradise who've got the best feathers and that sort of stuff. But it's fun when it's impulsive and it's about fun.
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Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
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I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
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Nature is our chapel.
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I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.
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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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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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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.
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I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.
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It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.