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Björk
25 quotes
“It's so amazing when people tell me that … electronic music has not got soul. And they blame the computers. They got the finger pointed at the computers like, "There's no soul here." … You can't blame the computer. If there's not soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there. And it's not the tool's fault.”
Björk (born 1965) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The South Bank Show, series 21, episode 4: "Björk" (9 November 1997)
“I am grateful grapefruit.”
Björk (born 1965) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From her acceptance speech for the Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist at the 18th Brit Awards, 9 February 1998
“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.”
Björk (born 1965) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Defending her song "Ancestors", which had been alleged to be "really hard to listen to". Newsweek, 6 September 2004.
“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.”
Björk (born 1965) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diva magazine, October 2004
“But, but, these are the people that made the Busby Berkeley movies, yeah? So they're not exactly subtle.”
Björk (born 1965) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Explaining her swan dress on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, season 9, episode 177 (19 October 2001)
“It's interesting for me to bring up a girl. You go to the toy store and the female characters there—Cinderella, the lady in Beauty and the Beast—their major task is to find Prince Charming. And I'm like, wait a minute, it's 2005! We've fought so hard to have a say, and not just live through our partners, and yet you're still seeing two-year-old girls with this message pushed at them that the only important thing is to find this amazing dress so that the guy will want you. It's something my mum pointed out to me when I was little—so much [so] that I almost threw up; but, she's right.”
Björk (born 1965) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From The Observer, March 13 2005 issue
“It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc.”
Björk (born 1965) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked "Given the chance, how would you change the world?" (The Independent, 18 March 2005.)
“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 gives the finger again, this time waving it into the air. "God bless the Internet," she adds. And what about you, then? "I'll still be there, waving a pirate flag.”
“There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic To human behaviour … There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all”
“His wicked sense of humour suggests exciting sex His fingers focus on her Her touches He's Venus as a boy”
“I'm back at my cliff Still throwing things off I listen to the sounds they make On their way down I follow with my eyes 'til they crash Imagine what my body would sound like Slamming against those rocks And when it lands Will my eyes Be closed or open?”
“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 astrayLike a killer whaleTrapped in a bay”
“If travel is searching And home what's been found I'm not stopping I'm going hunting I'm the hunter I'll bring back the goods But I don't know when”
Björk (born 1965) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hunter, (1997)
“I thought I could organize freedom How Scandinavian of me”
Björk (born 1965) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hunter, (1997)
“I want to go on a mountaintop With a radio and good batteries And play a joyous tune And free the Human Race From suffering (saccharine)”
“I'm no fucking Buddhist But this is enlightenment The less room you give me (Happiness) The more space I've got It doesn't scare me at all”
“You'll be given love You'll be taken care of You'll be given love You have to trust it”
“Emotional landscapes They puzzle me The riddle gets solved and you push me up to This state of emergency How beautiful to be State of emergency Is where I want to be”
“I dare you to take me on I dare you to show me your palms I'm so bored of cowards who say they want (love) Then they can't handle love”
“He offers a handshake, crooked five fingers They form a pattern yet to be matched On the surface simplicity But the darkest pit in me Is pagan poetry”
“Oh thou that bowest Thy ecstatic face Thy perfect sorrows Are the world's to keep Wherefore onto thy knees Come we With a prayer”
“When in doubt, give.”
“You have done Good for yourselves Since you left my wet embrace And crawled ashore … My sons and my daughters Ho-oh Your sweat is salty I am why”
“Declare independence Don't let them do that to you ... Start your own currency Make your own stamp Protect your language”
“The thing about making [Dancer in the Dark] that upset me most was how cruel Lars is to the woman he is working with. Not that I can't take it, because I'm pretty tough and completely capable of defending myself, but because my ideals of the ultimate creator were shattered. And my friend said, 'What did you expect? All major directors are sexist; a maker is not necessarily an expert in human rights or female–male equality.' My answer was that you can take quite sexist film directors like Woody Allen or Stanley Kubrick, and still they are the one[s] that provide the soul to their movies. In Lars von Trier's case it is not so, and he knows it. He needs a female to provide his work soul. And he envies them and hates them for it. So he has to destroy them during the filming, and hide the evidence. What saves him as an artist, though, is that he is so painfully honest that even though he will manage to cover up his crime in the "real" world (he is a genius to set things up [so] that everybody thinks it is just his female-actress-at-the-moment imagination, that she is just hysterical or pre-menstrual), his films become a documentation of this 'soul-robbery'. Breaking the Waves is the clearest example of that.”