Bjork Quotes

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passion for music, so it doesn't matter to me if it's a remix or an original production. I don't think about it as, 'Well, I have to spend three hours on a remix or I have to do something all original.'

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.