Bjork Quotes
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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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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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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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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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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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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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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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There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
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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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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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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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I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
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The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.
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It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.
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People that complete other people's vision are understated.
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Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
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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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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.
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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've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.