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"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
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"As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me."
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"I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage."
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"What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much."
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"I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got."
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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 don't think you can contrive any sound."
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"There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album."
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"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."
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"I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is."
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"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing."
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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 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
"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
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"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover."
Soul
"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
Hope
"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."
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"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
"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
Time
"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
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"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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