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"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
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"I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop."
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"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."
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"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."
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"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."
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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."
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"I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village."
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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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"And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit."
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
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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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"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 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."
Music
"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 still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
Hope
"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
Time
"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
"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."
Music
"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
Sound
"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover."
Soul
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