Author: Peter Gabriel

Quotes

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.

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

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

- Peter Gabriel

I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.

I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.

- 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.

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

What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

- Peter Gabriel

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.

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.

- Peter Gabriel

There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

- 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.

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 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.

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

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