Quotes by Peter Gabriel - Page 2

The dream is a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them has a chance of getting their story uploaded, being seen, being watched.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Dream
Inspiration
Motivation
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Change
Dream
Peace
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They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Mouths
Thinking
Use
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Copyright
Cynical
Forever
Thinking
Properly
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Burning
Independent
Parks
Theme
Independent Films
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Artist
Exclusivity
Thinking
Want
Accept
Sell
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Happy
Music
Cathartic
Happy Music
Human Condition
Joyful
Miserable
Natural
Stuff
Condition
Write
Genuinely
Maybe
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Music
Heart
Real
Strong
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Empty
Guilty
Throwing
Too Much
Arrangement
Full
Older
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Data
Digital
Digital World
Endless
Visible
Becomes
Behind
Leave
Exactly
Increasingly
Trail
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Confidence
Albums
Me Confidence People
Me Process People
Record
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Advantage
Bottom
Cash
Notes
Quite
Appear
Drop
Older
Johnny
Lower
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Stuff
Belongs
Course
Elite
Galleries
Traded
Whereas
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Music
Appeals
Artist
Evolution
Ideas
Pieces
Process
Living
Music Me Living
Music Me Process
Idea
Enables
Sell
Living Thing
Piece
Product
Rather
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Agendas
Big Corporations
Corporations
Adapt
Work Technology Will
Governments
Whereas
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Music
Business
Enjoy
Genesis
Left
Machinery
Months
Music Business
Two
Wanted
Years
Business Music Doing
Ahead
Did
Doing
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Art
Soul
Spiritual
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Flight
Hands
Mood
Song
Stronger
Thinking
Catch
Flop
Hand
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When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Labels
Online
Successful
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Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Poetry
Blow
Noses
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Matured
Song
Taken
Writing
Attempts
Studio
Vocals
Whereas
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Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Artist
Done
Records
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To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Life
Cutting
Wine
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Accountability
Clear
Critical
Oversight
Revelations
Security
Shocked
Snowden
Terrorist
World Look Way
Attacks
But Not Without
Increasing
Look World Way
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Fed Up
Fourth
Release
Fed
Title
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Choices
Creative
Different Styles
Environment
Healthy
Minorities
Thinking
Weak
Creative Environment
Everyone Else
Feeds
Styles
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Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve I had to listen, had no choice
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Time
Light
Night
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Involved
Technique
Voice
Colors
Particularly
Noises
Sounds
Tones
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Brain
Explanation
Function
Ideas
Relaxed
Stuff
Lot
Had
Artists
Coming
Writers
Great Ideas
Trains
Musicians
Painters
Terms
Somehow
Talked
While
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Awards
Influence
Mercury
Prize
Currently
Jon
Major
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Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Broken Heart
Hurt
Letting Go
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I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Discovery
Gone Away
People
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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
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Eye
Light
Song
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Hands
Meaningful
Rights
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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.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Make You Think
People
Thinking
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I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Listening
Thinking
Writing
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