Top 86 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Gabriel
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
Snowden's revelations shocked the world and made it very clear why we need to have some way to look over those who look over us. With increasing terrorist attacks, security is critical, but not without any accountability or oversight.
Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.
I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.
In some ways, I'm just a visual person.
I didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.
As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.
I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.
I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.
As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.
When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.
I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.
Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.
You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.
As you get older, some top notes drop off and bottom notes appear, which I quite like. You listen to Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash, and you see the advantage of the lower end.
I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.
Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.
The American record company Geffen got so fed up with me that they said they weren't going to release my fourth record unless I gave it some title. So it was called 'Security' in America, and it had no title everywhere else in the world.
A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.
I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.
I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a powerful and inspiring film.
What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.
I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.
Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.
I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.
Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.
There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.
The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.
The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb
You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.
Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
We've got to get in to get out.
Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
All of the buildings, all of those cars
Were once just a dream
In somebodys head.
At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.
Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.
Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.
I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.
People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.
I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.
In your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light,
the heat I see in your eyes
From the pain come the dream
From the dream come the vision
From the vision come the people
From the people come the power
From this power come the change.
I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.
The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.
Music is a spiritual doorway. ...
Its power comes from the fact that
It plugs directly into the soul.
I look at the time with you to keep me awake and alive.
With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.
Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.
In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.
Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.
There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.
Surround yourself with brilliance.
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