Peter Gabriel Quotes
A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
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I have a relatively good track record.
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I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.
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Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.
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Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
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If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
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I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?
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I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
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Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.
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I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
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When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.
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The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
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If you looked at the sound pattern of an old-fashioned record, it would be very spikey. But nowadays, there's no spikes - everything looks like a brick, so the quiet bits become louder. It's actually damaging because it's like listening to a drill.
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People assumed we called the record 'Murray Street' because of its proximity to the World Trade Centre, but that wasn't it at all. Before the attacks, I had simply been walking around taking pictures of things, and I had this photograph of the street sign. We felt it was somewhat evocative and decided to use it on the back cover of the album.
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Don't sell out who you really are to make others happy.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.
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A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
