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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It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?
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The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb
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Nothing's planned. Never say never.
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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'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 get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
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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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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 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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Fear, she's the mother of violence.
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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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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
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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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The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
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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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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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It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.
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Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.
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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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That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'
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I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
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Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.