Portishead Quotes

#1. Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.

Sean Price

#2. If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

Vikram Seth

#3. What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.

Adam Driver

#4. 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.

Beth Gibbons

#5. I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

Beth Gibbons

#6. You either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive ...

John Geddes

#7. Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.

Anders Holm

#8. "You listen to Portishead, you're not like the others. Want some coke?" I'm like, "Nah, man."

Sean Price

#9. Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

Peter Birks

#10. Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

Bob Woodward

#11. If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.

George Wigram

#12. I have loved you since I first laid eyes on you Fallon, and I haven't stopped.

Toni Aleo

#13. My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

Beth Gibbons

#14. You ask me what life is? It is like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and nothing more is known.

Anton Chekhov

#15. Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. Join MI5? I was ready to lead it.

Ian McEwan

#17. Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

Isabelle Huppert

#18. Originality will be rewarded in any line.

Will Rogers