Genesis Quotes
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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 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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Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
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There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.
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I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
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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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In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.
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'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.
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I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
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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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Genesis fans are a religious group!
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We've got to get in to get out.
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Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.
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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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Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.
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There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
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As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
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You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.
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The transition as far as our living conditions has been relatively easy. But as far as our mental state, I think everyone's suffering right now.
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There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.
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We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
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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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All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.
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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.