Ivor Cutler quotes
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“Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.”
-- Ivor CutlerSource : "Ivor Cutler" by Mark Espiner, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2006.
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“I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot see it in the air, or watch it fall. Sometimes Im home all day but I never see it sliding about looking for a place to rest when my back is turned. Does it wait til I go out? Or, does it happen in the night when I sleep? Dust is not fussy about the places it chooses, though it seems to prefer still objects. Sometimes, out of kindness, I let it lie for weeks. On some places it will lie forever. However, dust holds no grudges and once removed it will always return, in a friendly way.”
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“The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.' The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead'”
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“There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.”
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“I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back and looked around in panic. I prayed to God and relaxed. I realised if I turned carefully on my front I could see bits of grass to hold on to.”
-- Ivor Cutler
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Source : Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience”
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“Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.”
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Source : "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.
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“Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man”
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