Top 22 Peter Gabriel Quotes

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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophist

Italian food is my favorite food. It’s the most sophisticated eating system.
Peter Gabriel
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
Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.
Peter Gabriel
I’m trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.
Peter Gabriel
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
Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.
Peter Gabriel
I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a powerful and inspiring film.
Peter Gabriel
There’s a Slow Food movement. I think I’m part of the Slow Music movement.
Peter Gabriel
What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.
Peter Gabriel
Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.
Peter Gabriel
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.
Peter Gabriel
As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.
Peter Gabriel
Snowden’s revelations shocked the world and made it very clear why we need to have some way to look over those who look over us. With increasing terrorist attacks, security is critical, but not without any accountability or oversight.
Peter Gabriel
A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
Peter Gabriel
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.
Peter Gabriel
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
If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.
Peter Gabriel
Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.
Peter Gabriel
I really wanted the first record to be different from what I’d done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.
Peter Gabriel
I didn’t leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.
Peter Gabriel
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
In some ways, I’m just a visual person.
Peter Gabriel