Peter Gabriel Quotes

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Surround yourself with brilliance.

I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.

From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.

Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

I look at the time with you to keep me awake and alive.

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.

We've got to get in to get out.

I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

Fear, she's the mother of violence.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

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.

The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare.

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.

The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

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.

One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.

With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.

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.

Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss