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Bjork

Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress

Lived from: 1965 -

Category: Music | Movie

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  • Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
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  • 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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  • People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
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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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  • There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour
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    There's no map
    And a compass
    Wouldn't help at all
    Songs Human Behaviour (single; 1993)
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
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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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