Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Mike Rutherford

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Mike Rutherford.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford is an English guitarist, bassist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Genesis in 1967. Rutherford and keyboardist Tony Banks are the group's two continuous members.

English - Musician | Born: October 2, 1950

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Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

Mike Rutherford

I'm completely hooked on polo.

Mike Rutherford

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

Mike Rutherford

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

Mike Rutherford

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

Mike Rutherford

When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.

Mike Rutherford

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

Mike Rutherford

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Mike Rutherford

I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.

Mike Rutherford

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

Mike Rutherford

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

Mike Rutherford