Beth Gibbons Quotes

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• I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear…
• There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.
• Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.
• Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
• 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…
• 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,…
• I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.
• I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
• I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.
• 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…
• 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…
• A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to…
• 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…

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