Andrew Lowe > Quotes

“Magpie’ by The Unthanks),”
― Andrew Lowe, Stronger Than Death

“Everything Must Go by the Manic Street Preachers.”
― Andrew Lowe, Stronger Than Death

“It was an excellent lift. Not completely clean, but decent for a layman.’ Sawyer smiled. ‘Apollo Robbins.”
― Andrew Lowe, Creepy Crawly

“Richard Hawley’s ‘Tonight The Streets Are Ours’. He dusted and polished to The KLF; hoovered to Robyn and Bat For Lashes.”
― Andrew Lowe, Stronger Than Death

“The worst thing you can be in this job is partial, invested. You just have to get good at turning that off. You have to see the bodies as bodies, not as people. They were people once, of course, fuelled by food and water, driven by electrical impulses. But then, for whatever reason, the power got turned off. The lights went out. They were transformed into meat.”
― Andrew Lowe, The Dying Light

“Emily Dickinson, the poet, said a beautiful thing. “I dwell in possibility”.”
― Andrew Lowe, Stronger Than Death

“it’s impossible to live in the moment because by the time the brain has processed it, the present has become the past. And so we talked about how all the big, broad, meaning of life stuff is all just distraction. A way of coping with our smallness in a vast, unfathomable world. We spend an eternity not existing, we exist for a short time, and then we return to eternity. We distract ourselves, with what came before and what might come after. But the only thing that truly matters is the bit in the middle. The brief existence.”
― Andrew Lowe, Creepy Crawly

“Faster’ by the Manic Street Preachers:”
― Andrew Lowe, Stronger Than Death

“We need to get back to our ABCs. Accept nothing. Believe nobody. Check everything.”
― Andrew Lowe, Creepy Crawly

“Maxinquaye by Tricky,”
― Andrew Lowe, The Dying Light

“see my work as giving them a voice, a final say. But to do that effectively, you have to learn to stifle the sentiment.”
― Andrew Lowe, The Dying Light