Top 66 Peter Gabriel Quotes

#1. 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.

Peter Gabriel

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#2. I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

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#3. The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.

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#4. In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

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#5. 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.

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#6. With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

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#7. In your eyes I am complete.

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#8. 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.

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#9. Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

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#10. I'm looking forward to getting older. I look at people like Peter Gabriel and Sting and even Tom Petty, Don Henley. People that didn't lose it. I'm hopefully going to join that club.

Brandon Flowers

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#11. 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

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#12. Fear, she's the mother of violence.

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#13. 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.

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#14. You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.

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#15. Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

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#16. Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.

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#17. I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear.

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#18. I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

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#19. I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

Tom DeLonge

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#20. The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

Gabriel Byrne

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#21. Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

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#22. I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment.

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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.

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#25. All of the buildings, all of those cars
Were once just a dream
In somebodys head.

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#26. 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.

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#27. Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

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#28. With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.

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#29. Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare.

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#30. 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

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#31. It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

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#32. I look at the time with you to keep me awake and alive.

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#33. Did you think that your feet had been bound
By what gravity brings to the ground?
Did you feel you were tricked
By the future you picked?
Well, come on down

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#34. If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

Youssou N'Dour

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#35. 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

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#36. Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

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#37. Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

Paula Cole

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#38. without a word / without my pride / I reach out from the inside

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#39. 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

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#40. Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss

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#41. 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.

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#42. I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

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#43. 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.

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#44. One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream ...

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#45. The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

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#46. Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

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#47. At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

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#48. The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

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#49. With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

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#50. I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.

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#51. Three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe,
three dot.

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#52. 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.

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#53. We've got to get in to get out.

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#54. Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

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#55. I believe we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories , on the one hand , we can sugercoat it. Nothing is too messed up that can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song, I like this version as much as the next girl does. It's just not the truth

John Green

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#56. 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.

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#57. 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.

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#58. 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

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#59. 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

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#60. People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

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#61. 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.

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#62. In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

Phil Collins

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#63. From the pain comes the dream. From the dream comes the vision. From the vision come the people. From the people comes the power. From this power come the change.

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#64. I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'

Brandon Flowers

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#65. My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

Sting

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#66. Surround yourself with brilliance.

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