Genesis Quotes
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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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I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.
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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 didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.
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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 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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Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve I had to listen, had no choice
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I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment.
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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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As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.
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I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away
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And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
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When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.
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I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.
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One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.
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He's like a rock star to us. Forget American Idol. We had the real deal.
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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'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.
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I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.
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I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.
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In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.
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The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.
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I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
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Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.