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"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
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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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"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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"If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do."
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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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"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
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"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
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"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
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"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."
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"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
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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."
Music
"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
"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
"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
"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
Sound
"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
Hope
"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover."
Soul
"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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