Top 100 Quotes About Bjork
#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.
Bjork
#2. People that complete other people's vision are understated.
Bjork
#3. Nature is our chapel.
Bjork
#4. I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
Bjork
#5. 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
#6. When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.
Bjork
#7. 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
#8. It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.
Bjork
#9. 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
#10. All is full of love
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#11. I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
Bjork
#12. I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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#13. 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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#14. 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
#15. I thrive best hermit style.
with a beard and a pipe.
Bjork
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. You shouldn't let poets lie to you.
Bjork
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
Bjork
#22. 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
#23. I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
Bjork
#24. 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
#25. I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her.
Jon Stewart
#26. 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
#27. Coincidence makes sense only with you.
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#28. There's more to Life than this
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
Bjork
#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. 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
#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. If nothing else, I have money.
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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is enlightmentment
Bjork
#53. 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
#54. Americans are so dumb!
Bjork
#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
Bjork
#58. Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.
Bjork
#59. 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
#60. I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.
Rainn Wilson
#61. 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
#62. I went through an anti-Establishment phase and thought we should get everything for free.
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#63. 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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#64. 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.
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#65. I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
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#66. People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
Bjork
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
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#77. I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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#78. I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
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#79. If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
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#80. Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.
Bjork
#81. Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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#82. Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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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#85. 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.
Bjork
#86. Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
Bjork
#87. 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.
Bjork
#88. I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
Bjork
#89. As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
Bjork
#90. Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.
Ellie Goulding
#91. 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.
Bjork
#92. My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
Yael Naim
#93. I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
Bjork
#94. The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
Miguel
#95. I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
Bjork
#96. 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.
Bjork
#97. 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
#98. Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
Bjork
#99. Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
Bjork
#100. I'm going to prove the impossible really exists
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