Peter Gabriel Quotes

• I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn’t matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you’ve taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

  Peter Gabriel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Song And Singing

• I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don’t catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

  Peter Gabriel

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Think, Live

• 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.

  Peter Gabriel

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Experiment

• 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.

  Peter Gabriel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forever

• 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.

  Peter Gabriel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Art and the Artist

• 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.

  Peter Gabriel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Art and the Artist

• The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don’t. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

  Peter Gabriel

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Music
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  All of those cars were once just a dream in somebody’s head.

  Peter Gabriel

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Head, Once

Peter Gabriel (8)

Birth:	13th February, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Composer, Director, Flautist, Humanist, Lyricist, Producer, Singer, Writer

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