Europe Quote by Bjork Download Open image “Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.” — Bjork ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Europe Firsts Rapper Saga
Scandinavian rap started in the '90s, off the back of Run DMC, and it was a bunch of Swedish dudes doing the same thing. — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't particularly see myself as an Icelandic artist. I'm a European artist. — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of Icelandic sagas when I was young. I've always been interested in the Viking culture. — Kristofer Hivju Copy Share Image
They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Contemporary Swedish artists that chose Swedish as their language tended to sing about certain topics and use words I wanted to avoid. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
There were eras of English music where people tried to rap in American accents and we lost our way. — Kano Copy Share
I feel Icelandic people are really good at gathering together information and brain power. We're better at that than some kind of Las Vegas… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I had this awesome tennis teacher when I was 12 who was Icelandic. He looked like a Viking: long hair, and he was built… — Eline Powell Copy Share Image
Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.” — Björk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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… — Björk Copy Share Image
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… — Bjork Copy Share Image
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… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency. — Bjork Copy Share Image
“You show me continents, I see the islands, You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.” — Bjork Copy Share Image
In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace. — Bjork Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side, but I… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
Bayern is always a team that can win the Champions League title in Europe. — Lothar Matthaus Copy Share Image
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We witness anti-Semitic attacks in the heart of Europe. We hear anti-Semitic slanders in European media. We feel anti-Semitic hatred in the continent that… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
