Genesis Quotes
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At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.
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You can't expect us to send each other hundreds of different tapes. Think of the postage cost alone! No, we only function when we are sitting next to each other in a studio. The result is well known by now!
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You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
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Nothing's planned. Never say never.
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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
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The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
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I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.
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Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.
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I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
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We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.
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I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
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It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.
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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.
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Fear, she's the mother of violence.
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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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This has been going on for about 12 years. It's not a one-off thing. There was vermin there and people have seen rats.
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The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
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The American record company Geffen got so fed up with me that they said they weren't going to release my fourth record unless I gave it some title. So it was called 'Security' in America, and it had no title everywhere else in the world.
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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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Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
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I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.
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I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.
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If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
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I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.