Genesis Quotes
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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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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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Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.
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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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At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.
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I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
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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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We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.
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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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It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.
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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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The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
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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'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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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'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
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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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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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I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.
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On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
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I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
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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.