Genesis Quotes
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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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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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Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.
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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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In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.
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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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'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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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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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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Genesis fans are a religious group!
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If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.
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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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This is the beginning of what could be an interesting season, but it's just the beginning.
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We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
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There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.
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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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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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Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.
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The dream is a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them has a chance of getting their story uploaded, being seen, being watched.
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All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.
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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 think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.