Peter Gabriel Quotes

Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.

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.

It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

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

Surround yourself with brilliance.

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

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

You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.

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

In your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete in your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches in your eyes the resolution of all the fruitless searches in your eyes I see the light and the heat in your eyes oh, I want to be that complete I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

We've got to get in to get out.

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

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

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.