Quotes from Ivor Cutler

How do you know you're a girl? I'm wearing a frock. And if you take it off? I get cold, so I put it back on. If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.

I need nothing I have everything I need I lie upon the coffin a doughnut in my hand

The veins stood out on her angry temples like wormcasts.

Gone, he kissed the air where she had stood.

Several notes were missing. They had always been missing, except for two that I had levered out with a poker when three...The anticipated thrill of a missing G or an E Flat was like a good joke, told again and again, always fresh. I believe that my present feeling for silences and emptinesses dates from those sing-songs, the awaited non-note on the beat.

Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.

Finally, I was let down and joined the others at the window, to watch the sleet fall.

Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.