Top 100 Bjork's Quotes
#1. I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.
Rainn Wilson
#2. When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.
Ellie Goulding
#3. I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
Bjork
#4. 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.
Bjork
#5. 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.
Bjork
#6. 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.
Bjork
#7. The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.
Win Butler
#8. The relationship changes as you learn more about people, and the work sort of takes on its own life. I enjoy this very much.
Bjork
#9. 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.
Bjork
#10. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
Bjork
#11. 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.
Bjork
#12. 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.
Bjork
#13. People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
Bjork
#14. I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
Bjork
#15. I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
Bjork
#16. 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.
Bjork
#17. I went through an anti-Establishment phase and thought we should get everything for free.
Bjork
#18. 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.
Bjork
#19. 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.
Bjork
#20. Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.
Bjork
#21. You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
Bjork
#22. If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That's what women do a lot - they're the glue between a lot of things.
Bjork
#23. Formats are just illusions, and it's about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music. Every time there's a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
Bjork
#24. Americans are so dumb!
Bjork
#25. I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
Ellie Goulding
#26. I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is enlightmentment
Bjork
#27. Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.
Bjork
#28. 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.
Bjork
#29. It's nice and quiet
but soon again
starts another big riot!
Bjork
#30. The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.
Bjork
#31. 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.
Bjork
#32. There's no map to human behaviour.
Bjork
#33. [When asked 'Given the chance, how would you change the world?']
It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc.
Bjork
#34. If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.
Bjork
#35. 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.
Bjork
#36. 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.
Bjork
#37. There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour ... There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all
Bjork
#38. On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's Pagan poetry
Pagan poetry
Bjork
#39. 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!
Bjork
#40. Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
Bjork
#41. While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.
Bjork
#42. 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.
Bjork
#43. 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.
Bjork
#44. I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.
Ashlee Simpson
#45. Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
Bjork
#46. When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Bjork, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul there.
Alice Smith
#47. What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
Bjork
#48. I find it very difficult to draw a line between what's sex and what isn't. It can be very, very sexy to drive a car, and completely unsexy to flirt with someone at a bar.
Bjork
#49. If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
Bjork
#50. I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
Bjork
#51. I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
Bjork
#52. I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
Bjork
#53. 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.
Bjork
#54. I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
Bjork
#55. It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
Bjork
#56. I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
Bjork
#57. I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.
Bjork
#58. 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.
Bjork
#59. You shouldn't let poets lie to you.
Bjork
#60. I tried to bring in the live orchestra like Bjork does. I love the feeling that that music gives me when I just listen to it. I mean it would be awesome to do an entire record like that. But unfortunately that's not my style. So rather than do a record like that I just got inspired by it.
Willa Ford
#61. 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.
Bjork
#62. I thrive best hermit style.
with a beard and a pipe.
Bjork
#63. 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.
Bjork
#64. 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.
Bjork
#65. I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her.
Jon Stewart
#66. I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
Bjork
#67. All is full of love
Bjork
#68. The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.
Bjork
#69. It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.
Bjork
#70. 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.
Bjork
#71. When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.
Bjork
#72. 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.
Bjork
#73. I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
Bjork
#74. Nature is our chapel.
Bjork
#75. People that complete other people's vision are understated.
Bjork
#76. 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.
Bjork
#77. If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
Bjork
#78. I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don't know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit.
Wayne Coyne
#79. 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.
Bjork
#80. 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.
Bjork
#81. I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.
Bjork
#82. If nothing else, I have money.
Bjork
#83. Imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks. When it lands will my eyes be closed or open?
Bjork
#84. 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.
Bjork
#85. 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.
Bjork
#86. 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.
Bjork
#87. 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.
Bjork
#88. Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
Bjork
#89. 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.
Bjork
#90. 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.
Bjork
#91. 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.
Bjork
#92. Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!
Bjork
#93. I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
Bjork
#94. 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.
Bjork
#95. There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
Bjork
#96. 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.
Bjork
#97. 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.
Bjork
#98. There's more to Life than this
Bjork
#99. Coincidence makes sense only with you.
Bjork
#100. I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.
Bjork
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