Peter Gabriel Quotes

United Kingdom, Singer-Songwriter
February 13, 1950

Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a successful solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. The album's most successful single, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and is MTV's most played music video of all time.

Also known as Record Producer, Humanitarian

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

Peter Gabriel Genesis
- Eyes
- Religious
- Religion
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.

Peter Gabriel Genesis
- Rhythm
- Piece
- Spine

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

Peter Gabriel Genesis
- Dream
- Car
- Building
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 Genesis
- World
- Bad
- Dream
The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

Peter Gabriel Genesis
- World
- Black
- Color
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 Genesis
- Thinking
- Writing
- Song
Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Peter Gabriel Genesis
- Up
- Dream
- Flower
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 Genesis

Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.

Peter Gabriel Genesis
- Light
- Studios
- Basements
We've got to get in to get out.

Peter Gabriel Genesis
- Get
- Out
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.

Peter Gabriel Genesis
- Film
- Learn
- Oliver Stone
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 Genesis
- Music
- Write
- Joyful
In some ways, I'm just a visual person.

Peter Gabriel Genesis
- Ways
- Visual person
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 Genesis

Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.

Peter Gabriel Genesis
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 Genesis
- Money
- Stuff
- Galleries