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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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Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.
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He's like a rock star to us. Forget American Idol. We had the real deal.
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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 think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
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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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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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With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.
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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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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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The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.
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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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Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
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One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.
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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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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.
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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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You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
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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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A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
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It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.
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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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Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.