Bjork famous quotes

Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.
-- Bjork

#Believe #Thinking #Iceland

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

#Loneliness #Ocean #Sky

It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.
-- Bjork

#Invisible

Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
-- Bjork

#Guy

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
-- Bjork

#Broken #Cracks #Wake Up

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
-- Bjork

#Oxygen #Singing #Celebration

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
-- Bjork

#Long #Who You Are

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
-- Bjork

#Girl #Blood #Body

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

#Together #Different #Way

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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#Divorce #Europe #America

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

#Nerd #Littles #Obsessed

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.
-- Bjork

#Song #Tunes #Done

Nature is our chapel.
-- Bjork

#Chapel

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.
-- Bjork

#Book #Body #Emotion

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.
-- Bjork

#Fall #Thinking #Want

I am a grateful... grapefruit.
-- Bjork

#Grateful #Grapefruit

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

#Self #People #Scare

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

#Writing #Singers #Singer-songwriters

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

#Music #People #Soul

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

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
-- Bjork

#House #Musical #Musician

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

#Football #Sorry #Eggs

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

#Air #Feminist #Littles

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
-- Bjork

#Iceland #People #Asking

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

#School #Way #These Days

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
-- Bjork

#Lying #Believe #Discipline

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

#Mind #Half #Body

You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
-- Bjork

#Coward

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

If nothing else, I have money.
-- Bjork

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
-- Bjork

#Song #Sound #Chemistry

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

#People

If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
-- Bjork

#Beautiful #Philosophy #Support

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
-- Bjork

#Hunting #Hands #Getting High

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

#Iceland #Firsts #England

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
-- Bjork

#Feminist #Age #Old Age

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
-- Bjork

#Country #People #Criticism

I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me ...
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#Scandinavians

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
-- Bjork

#Thinking #Years #Embrace

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.
-- Bjork

#Eye #People #Important

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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#Trying #Pay #Stuff

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

#Emotional #Political #Movement

There's more to Life than this
-- Bjork

#More To Life

It's nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
-- Bjork

#Nice #Quiet #Bigs

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

#Age #Emergencies #Century

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

#People #Vampire #Criminals

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

#People #Please

There's no map to human behaviour.
-- Bjork

#Behaviour #Maps #Humans

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

#Thinking #People #Would Be

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
-- Bjork

#Used #Understood

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

#People #Female #Care

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

#Country #War #Iceland

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

#Tradition #My Family #Farmers

Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
-- Bjork

#Dark #Blue #Evil

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
-- Bjork

#People

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
-- Bjork

#Cds #Listening #Way

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

#Morning #Wake Up #Evening

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
-- Bjork

#Teenager #Rocks #Iceland

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

#Wind #Way #Century

I miss you, but I haven't met you yet!
-- Bjork

#Missing #Mets

I'm going to prove the impossible really exists
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#Impossible #Prove

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.
-- Bjork

#Play #Nerd #Mind

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
-- Bjork

#Writing #Artist #Color

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

#People #Growing #Chemistry

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

#House #Guatemala #Sticks

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

#Girl #Support #Feminist

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

#Apples #Done #Punk

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

#Women #Energy #Males

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
-- Bjork

#Believe #Interviews #Spirit

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
-- Bjork

#Song #Interviews #Reason

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
-- Bjork

#Humidity #Cents #Vocal Cords

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

#People #Sake #Conservative

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
-- Bjork

#Rocks #Turning 50 #Interesting

I'm a whisper in water.
-- Bjork

#Water

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.
-- Bjork

#Eye #Thinking #Cities

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

#Thinking #Perfect #Records

Everyone is bisexual”: “I've always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic. I think everyone's bisexual to some degree or another; it's just a question of whether or not you choose to recognise it and embrace it. Personally, 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 flavours.
-- Bjork

#Powerful #Bisexual #Men

What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and romantic about the power of melodies. I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it's good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
-- Bjork

#Circles #Editing #Singing

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
-- Bjork

#Love #Dream #Thinking

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.
-- Bjork

#Suicide #Self Harm #Eye

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
-- Bjork

#Singers #Scientist #Singer-songwriters

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

#Men #Thinking #Ice Cream

I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
-- Bjork

#Iceland #Hiking #Path

Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don’t eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.
-- Bjork

#Lying #How You Feel #Emotion

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
-- Bjork

#Style #Beard #Hermits

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

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

#Albums #Three #Narcissistic

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

#Hippie #Hands #Upper Hand