"I always felt strongly about authority. I don’t like to be told what to do and I don’t like telling other people what to do. I think we work fine without bossing people about."
Björk (via bjorkish)
"I moved out when I was 14. My mum was hysterical about it. I decided I would never do that to Sindri: I would never be that desperate about it. We’ve always been like Siamese Twins, me and my boy. He toured with me - we were together, 24/7, for 14 years. [Now] he’s having an excellent time. He’s living with his father in Iceland - they’re bonding and shaving and talking about girls, which I think is excellent. He’s partying and socializing and doing what you’re supposed to do when you’re 15. He’s in a band. He likes rock. Which I don’t. He’s rebelling. Thank God!"
Björk, 2001 (via bjorkish)
(via bjorkarchive)
"I like shopping! But it really exhausts me. I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in."
Björk (via bjorkish)
"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 (via ittakesafooltoremainsane)
(Source: rabidheart)
"Björk has a weird energy about her as a woman. We were in this town to do a show and she spread such positive vibes. There were birds singing and rainbows – we could even see a tornado going on! We could actually see it! I think that every artist has an aura and persona that develops and Björk spreads such a positive energy. You can just feel it."
M.I.A. (via bjorkish)
"I’ve always been very anti-style. Music has got nothing to do with style, it’s a question of sincerity. So I wanted to make it irrelevant what style was used. It’s just like a jumper and a pair of trousers. When you meet a person, you try to find out what the person is about. What she’s wearing doesn’t matter. The songs were what mattered, and they could have anything they wanted. It didn’t matter if they needed a 20-piece brass orchestra from Bombay, or a trombone player from Kent. Journalists see all these different styles as a statement, but why I was doing it was to make that invisible, to make the songs more visible."
Björk (via bjorkish)
"My [lucky charm] is a silver sperm."
Björk (via victim-of-a-portrait)
(via orjoinacult-deactivated20110726)
"Björk is currently in the middle of the first run of Biophilia shows, taking place at the Manchester International Festival in Manchester, England. This is indicative of the way she intends to tour behind the album. Over the next three years, she plans to play six-week residencies in eight cities, all at intimate venues, to audiences of less than 2,000. At these performances, she’ll use the apps to perform Biophilia in full twice a week."
Taken from Pitchfork.
(via citizeninsane)
"The unknown turns me on.o"
Björk (via bjorkish)
"People keep telling me that technology is cold, that computers are the death of feeling in music and that it’s only music if it has guitars or violins. But how can you blame a computer for that? Who is supposed to put the soul in the music? I mean, you don’t look at a guitar and expect it to jump up and write a tune for you. A computer is just a tool. Every decision is made by the artist using that tool."
Björk (via fuckyeah-bjork) (via josu-music, bjorkish) (via afountainofblood)
"You know, it’s ironic that just at the point the lawyers and the businessmen had calculated how to control music, the internet comes along and fucks everything up."
Björk (via hotntoasty)
(via patbee)
"I like to think of people who buy my records as equals. Don’t think of them as gay or black or young or old. They’re just people who enjoy my music. I’ve had so many close gay friends all my life, it’s not that big of a deal with me. But I’d be lying if I said there weren’t things I find easier to talk about with gay guys."
Björk
So true… So very, very true…
(via victim-of-a-portrait)
"This is just so exciting, for someone who has been defending electronic music for 20 years."
Bjork-in regards to feats in technology and how it relates to her new album Biophilia (via scdub)
"BI saw Radiohead for the first time last year, I’d never been in the right country before. They were spectacular. But I keep wanting (starts laughing) to throw the guitars away! There are always these dank guitarists doing the last, “No, one more solo, please!” It’s morbid necrophilia to me. I still think they’re the best band in the world. And they’re the last people I should be criticising, at least they’re trying. But for me, it’s mostly Thom. I don’t know anybody like him, maybe Joni Mitchell, when there’s this depth. It’s like forever. Maybe he needs those guitars to struggle against. To keep those corpses alive!"
Björk on Radiohead (submitted by thisisagoodbeginning)
(Source: fuckyeahradioheadquotes, via neeeeeeerd-deactivated20111105)
"my home was by the sea. if i walked down to the sea and sat down by the shore, i was home. that’s my mother, the ocean. nothing can go wrong. i love swimming, another hippie thing. my mum says it’s because i’m a water sign. and the sense of space and boats. i’m obsessed with boats. it’s freedom."
björk (via birdsheart)
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