Work
His guttural and venomous vocals are a key identifying feature of his work. He is also well known for highly intelligent, literal and poetic lyrics, usually with a strong paganistic or environmentalistic message. A characteristic of his lyrics is the usage of puns and multiple meanings of words.
- Steel and concrete melanomas
- Punctuate the hot sunrise
- Spines now chilled by global warming
- Microwave their last goodbyes
(passage from The Ilk of Human Blindness from Skyclad album Jonah's Ark)
- I'm walking my personal Calvary mile to a do-it-yourself crucifixion,
- It's a kingdom of clowns wearing martyrdom's frown -
- I fight for my hammer and nails,
- We're an endless procession of lost, dispossessed unbelievers -
- Whose prayers go unheard and unanswered,
- unheard and unanswered like junk mail for Jesus
(lyrics of A Clown Of Thorns from Skyclad album The Answer Machine?)
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Famous quotes containing the word work:
“We all agree now—by “we” I mean intelligent people under sixty—that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. Unluckily, the matter does not end there: a rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.”
—Clive Bell (1881–1962)
“The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”
—Freya Stark (b. 1893–1993)
“[To an admirer who said, “You look gorgeous”:] Oh, God, if you only knew how much work it takes.”
—Julie Wilson (b. 1925)