Bjork Quotes
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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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Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
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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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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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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 would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
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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 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 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 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 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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The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
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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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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 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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It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.
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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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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.
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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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People that complete other people's vision are understated.
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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 get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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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.