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Prisoner is the debut studio album by Australian indie rock band The Jezabels. It was self-released on 16 September 2011 and internationally through PIAS Recordings, Mom + Pop Music and Dine Alone Records. It was recorded at Sydney's Attic Studios with producer Lachlan Mitchell and mixed by Peter Katis. Prisoner was news.com.au Entertainment's album of the week during the week of its release. The album won the 2011 Australian Music Prize and was described as "a cocktail of power and elegance, rising like a force to be reckoned with. Dramatic, creative songwriting is delivered with ferocity by commanding front woman Hayley Mary. The Jezabels have firmly cemented their place in the Australian music industry and abroad."
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“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation.”
“While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
“Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau [Henry Thoreau's aunt]—"Henry, why are you here?" Waldo, why are you not here?”
“The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.”
“The newspapers are gonna be tough on you. And prison is very, very hard on people who hurt kids. If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself.”
“As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.