Bjork Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
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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 love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.
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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 get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.