Peter Gabriel Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
-
I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
-
Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
-
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
-
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
-
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
-
I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
-
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
-
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
-
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
-
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
-
I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
-
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
-
People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
-
I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
-
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
-
It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
-
I really like cable T.V.
-
Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.
-
To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
-
What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
-
The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.
-
If I could go back in time, I would have loved to have done more with Triple H. He blossomed into a bigger star after I left. I regret, looking back now, that we didn't have more matches or better matches or at least one pay-per-view match where we could have really showed our best stuff - or, at least, I did.
-
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.
