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"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."
"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."
Explore more quotes by Beth Gibbons
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
"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."
"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 still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
"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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