Peter Gabriel Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.
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A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
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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.
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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.
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Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.
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In some ways, I'm just a visual person.
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The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.
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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.
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We've got to get in to get out.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.
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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.
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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.