Genesis Quotes
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We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.
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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.
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Nothing's planned. Never say never.
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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 get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
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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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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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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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Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
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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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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'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
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Fear, she's the mother of violence.
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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.
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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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I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
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I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.
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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 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 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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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.