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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."
"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."
"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."
"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself."
"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
Explore more quotes by Beth Gibbons
"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."
"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."
"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
"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."
"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."
"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
"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."
"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
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