Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabrielis an English singer-songwriter, musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a solo career, with "Solsbury Hill" his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. The album's most successful single, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth13 February 1950
CityChobham, England
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.
Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.
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.
Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.
At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.
I look at the time with you to keep me awake and alive.
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.
Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.
Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.
Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.
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.
I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.