Bjork and this business of music

Here are some great quotes from Bjork on the music business; originally seen at this post on Boing Boing:

Is commercialisation ruining music, I ask, or words to that effect.
“You know, a hundred years ago, if you wanted to do music you would probably be playing on street corners. I could have been in a hundred Rokk í Reykjavíks and fifty Sugarcubes then and still not become famous. But when all the money started coming into music it attracted a new type of person who hadn't been there before, gambler types who like to wager a lot of money on this and that, hoping for giant returns. Now, with the internet, people are going to have to ask themselves whether they want to go into music even if they may not become multimillionaires.”

“You know, its 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.

By the way, Bjork's new CD, Medulla gets released some time next week, but you can order it here from an overseas shop early if you are a huge fan (this information comes directly from the Boing Boing post)