Bjork

Musician

1965-11-21

Bjork is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, producer, and actress known for boundary-pushing music and visual experimentation. She has released influential solo albums across pop, electronic, and avant-garde styles.

Quotes by Bjork

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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Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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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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With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
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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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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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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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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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People that complete other people's vision are understated.
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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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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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I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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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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