88+ Bjork Quotes (Innovative, Experimental And Eclectic)
Bjork is an Icelandic singer-songwriter and producer. She is known for her eclectic music which combines elements of alternative, electronic, experimental, and trip hop. She has released nine solo albums and won numerous awards throughout her career.
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Top 10 Bjork Quotes
- People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
- If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.
- 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.
- 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.
- Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
- The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
- 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.
- I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.
- There's more to Life than this
- Love is a two way dream.
Bjork Short Quotes
- Create a paradise anywhere you go.
- There's no map to human behaviour.
- I am grateful... grapefruit.
- I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
- i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
- I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me.
- People that complete other people's vision are understated.
- Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me.
- I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.
- Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
Bjork Famous Quotes And Sayings
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
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. It's sort of a contradiction, but that's how it works somehow. — Bjork
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
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
There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all — Bjork
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
I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay — Bjork
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
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
I mean, the human race, we are a tribe, let's face it, and let's stop all this religious bullshit. I think everybody, or at least a lot of my friends, are just so exhausted with this whole self-importance of religious people. Just drop it. We're all fucking animals, so let's just make some universal tribal beat. We're pagan. Let's just march. — Bjork
National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!' — Bjork
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
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
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
I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things. It's tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times. — Bjork
I'm a whisper in water. — Bjork
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
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
I'm a little nervous. Definitely. Especially coming from an album like Biophilia, which was about the universe. This is more of a traditional singer/songwriter thing. When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there's nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is. — Bjork
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
There's so many songs about heartbreak that exist this in the world, because music is somehow the perfect medium to express something like this. — Bjork
You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something. — Bjork
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
[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those symphony orchestras. If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club. For me music was not about that. It is about freedom and expression and individuality and impulsiveness and spontaneity. It wasn't so Apollonian; it was more Dionysian. — Bjork
If nothing else, I have money. — Bjork
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening. — Bjork
Declare independence, don't let them do that to you! — Bjork
I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that. — Bjork
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
I miss you, but I haven't met you yet! — Bjork
I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment — Bjork
I have nothing against Kanye West. Help me with this - I'm not dissing him - this is about how people talk about him. With the last album he did, he got all the best beatmakers on the planet at the time to make beats for him. A lot of the time, he wasn't even there. Yet no one would question his authorship for a second. — Bjork
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in. — Bjork
I've written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I'll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time, I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little - music changes into something else when you read it. — Bjork
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
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
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
If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy. — Bjork
I'm going to prove the impossible really exists — Bjork
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
Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal. — Bjork
When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships. — Bjork
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
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals...and they killed Elvis Presley. — Bjork
It's nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot! — Bjork
I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad. — Bjork
How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me. — Bjork
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
If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting. — Bjork
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
It takes a long time to fully become who you are. — Bjork
It wasn't just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong. — Bjork
You shouldn't let poets lie to you. — Bjork
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic. — Bjork
Kids draw masterpieces - they're the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools. It's important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options. — Bjork
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age. — Bjork
I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things. It's tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times. Girls now are also faced with different problems. I've been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years, I learned - the hard way - that if I was going to get my ideas through, I was going to have to pretend that they - men - had the ideas. — Bjork
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack — Bjork
I've never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan - I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible. Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe. — Bjork
People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world. — Bjork
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
Americans are so dumb! — Bjork
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
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
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news. — Bjork
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
Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe. — Bjork
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
Life Lessons by Bjork
- Bjork's work is a testament to the power of creativity and the importance of pushing boundaries. She has demonstrated that it is possible to create something unique and meaningful through experimentation and exploration.
- Her willingness to take risks and challenge conventions has made her an inspiration to many and has provided a valuable lesson on how to think outside the box.
- Bjork's work has also highlighted the importance of collaboration and the power of combining different art forms to create something truly special.
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