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"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."
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"I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative."
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"If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good."
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"I don't think you can contrive any sound."
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"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."
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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."
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"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."
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"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
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"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."
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"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."
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"The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult."
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"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
Hope
"We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually."
Life
"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
Emotional
"You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days."
Music
"I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death."
Death
"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover."
Soul
"I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around."
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"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
Sound
"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
Time
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