Genesis Quotes
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Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.
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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
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My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.
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It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.
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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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Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
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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 get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
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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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Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare.
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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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I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
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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.
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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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I think computers have changed things tremendously. At one time, you tended to take the rough with the smooth. But now, because you can go back and stop and start, and have a limitless amount of tracks if anything looks remotely good, we keep it. You've got to go through the agony of sounding very human at first, and then you work on it with the aid of technology. Computers have revolutionized things in many ways allowing me to work to a standard I could have only joked about fourty years ago.
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Fear, she's the mother of violence.
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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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I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
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If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.
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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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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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He's like a rock star to us. Forget American Idol. We had the real deal.
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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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Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.