Genesis Quotes
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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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In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.
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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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There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.
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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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Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.
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I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.
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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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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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Genesis fans are a religious group!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.
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And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.
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We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
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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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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.