Bjork Quotes

#1. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

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#2. People that complete other people's vision are understated.

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#3. Nature is our chapel.

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#4. When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.

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#5. 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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#6. All is full of love

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#7. I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

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#8. I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

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#9. 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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#10. I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

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#11. I thrive best hermit style.
with a beard and a pipe.

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#12. My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.

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#13. You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

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#14. I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

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#15. I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

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#16. I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

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#17. Coincidence makes sense only with you.

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#18. People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them.

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#19. There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.

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#20. It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

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#21. Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

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#22. I never really understood the word 'loneliness'. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

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#23. I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora's box a little bit and air it out.

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#24. Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

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#25. 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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#26. The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.

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#27. In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.

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#28. Imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks. When it lands will my eyes be closed or open?

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#29. If nothing else, I have money.

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#30. I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.

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#31. 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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#32. I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs.

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#33. 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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#34. Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

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#35. Americans are so dumb!

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#36. Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.

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#37. Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.

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#38. In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.

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#39. I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

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#40. People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

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#41. It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

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#42. I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

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#43. The relationship changes as you learn more about people, and the work sort of takes on its own life. I enjoy this very much.

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#44. I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

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#45. But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

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#46. 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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#47. Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

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#48. I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

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#49. I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

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#50. 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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#51. Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.

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#52. When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage.

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#53. I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

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#54. As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

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#55. I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.

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#56. I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

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#57. I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

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#58. Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

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#59. We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.

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#60. Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas ... We were the first rappers of Europe.

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#61. People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

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#62. There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

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#63. Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me.

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#64. 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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#65. Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.

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#66. 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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#67. While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

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#68. People ask me questions like, "Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you're like when you walk down the street?" It's like, "Of course not." It's such a silly question - it's like being theatrical is a crime.

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#69. I miss you, but I haven't met you yet!

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#70. Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

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#71. There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour ... There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

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#72. You can't say no to hope,
Can't say no to happiness!

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#73. I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.

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#74. I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

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#75. 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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#76. Who would have known
That a boy like him
Would have entered me lightly
Restoring my blisses
Who would have known
That a boy like him
After sharing my core
Would stay going nowhere

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#77. I am half child, half ancient.

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#78. Create a paradise anywhere you go.

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#79. 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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#80. I'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes 'till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.

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#81. All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals ... and they killed Elvis Presley.

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#82. I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

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#83. I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

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#84. It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.

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#85. The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

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#86. Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.

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#87. 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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#88. How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

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#89. I am a grateful ... grapefruit.

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#90. When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

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#91. 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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#92. For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

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#93. 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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#94. It's nice and quiet
but soon again
starts another big riot!

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#95. Love is a two way dream.

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#96. I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.

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#97. Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.

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#98. National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'

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#99. I'm a whisper in water.

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#100. It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.

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