Ivor Cutler > Quotes

“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.”
― Ivor Cutler, Scots Wa' Straw

“I need nothing
I have everything I need
I lie upon the coffin
a doughnut in my hand”
― Ivor Cutler

“The veins stood out on her angry temples like wormcasts.”
― ivor cutler

“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.”
― ivor cutler

“Gone, he kissed the air where she had stood.”
― Ivor Cutler, Large Et Puffy

“Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.”
― Ivor Cutler

“Finally, I was let down and joined the others at the window, to watch the sleet fall.”
― Ivor Cutler