In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'
quote by Phil Collins
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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.
quote by Peter Gabriel
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My Head Sounds Like That
the metal jangles as the key turns
unlock the door, wipe my feet clean
oh my head sounds like that
the oil is spitting in the saucepan
i squeeze the sponge and let the cat out
oh my head sounds like that
oh my head
oh oh oh
oh oh oh
the water's dripping in the hallway
the guy next door, he knocks his wall down
oh my head sounds like that
the knife it scrapes across the burnt brown toast
the freight train rumbles past my window
oh my head sounds like that
oh my head
oh oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oh oh
around the axis we all spin
to determine what's left out and what's left in
what's left out and what's left in
what's left out and what's left in
who's left out and who's left in
who's left in
the moments come and go like water
i try to hold them but they're fading
oh my head sounds like that
oh my head
oh oh oh
Drums: Manu Katche
Percussion: Assane Thiam, Ged Lynch, Mahut Dominique, Hossam Ramzy
Guitars: David Rhodes
Bass: Tony Levin
Brass: The Black Dyke Mills Band
Brass Arrangement: Peter Gabriel, Ed Shearmur, Bob Ezrin
Loop Manipulation: Richard Chappell
Programming: Richard Chappell
Piano, Mellotron: Peter Gabriel
song performed by by Peter Gabriel
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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.
quote by Peter Gabriel
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What's so special about all those amazing British children's writers, those who gave us Alice in Wonderland and Robinson Crusoe and Pooh Bear and Peter Pan and Peter Rabbit and the rest, was that they didn't set out to seduce. The great children's writers were authentic, they copied no one, they didn't set out to make money or to preach ideas. They just transcribed their dreams.
quote by Luc Besson
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Genesis Drowns In Mystic Revelations
genesis whispers soft whispers
genesis seed births soft breezes
genesis wind storms season winds
genesis not genius is source origins
origins beginning birth catalysts
genesis walks invisible mind waltz
point of creation mental eureka inspirations
mind flashes in concert light rainbow illuminations
wind fire pulse electric brain cells drum beats
poem by Terence George Craddock
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When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.
quote by Mike Rutherford
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The Living Song
Sing a new song everyday
Live your song
For the song comes from deep within
You are the song
Sing it
Sing it
Loud like Thunder
The seas will part
The heavans will open
In pleasing
Sing a New song
Sing a New song
Peter LeBuhn
poem by Peter LeBuhn
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Scientific Facts Science Of Creation
Genesis constitutes a philosophical creation
storm such as never was or will be ever again
Genesis states core identities Genesis explains
all essence contains greatest promise ever made
Genesis declares God seeks intimacy is intimate
examine scientific facts Science of Creation
'In the beginning (time) God created the heavens
(space) and the earth (matter) ' meaning God
in very first verse of Genesis in the Bible states
God created time, space, matter! Great Scientists
Philosophers did seek over thousands of years
to discover prove basic conceptions of creation
components of or make up of the universe behold
twentieth century break through physicists state
physics proves our entire vast universe is founded
upon time space matter as proclaimed in Genesis
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Makes us nervous but we have been assured by the wonderful writers that have left us that they would never leave us unless we were in good hands. And I know that we are. These are writers that are taking over that have been with us for while now.
quote by Jane Leeves
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Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
quote by Peter Gabriel
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Love Is Easy
You're the lyrics to all my songs
The lone muse to all my poems
Inspiration in sweet conversation
Sedation in my incarceration
Locked away for life
Within the steel doors of your heart
Straight to hard time
Only to be freed when you start
Looking elsewhere
Don't search any longer
If you need help I'm there
Our bonds will grow stronger
The note to every tune that move
Within my blood keeping me alive
The sound of howls at the moon
That only lives through sun light
One eye, to catch me
Two times, you called me
Third time, I called back
Forever, we'll last
No longer inside looking out
No longer outside looking in
I'm in the center looking around
The new world coming in
This world order of you and I
Can't leave at anytime
Because we believe in this time
We believe in this time
The beats are never easy
The instrumentals so hard to produce
But you are the words from the heart
The lyric that rides the notes to every tune
Playing within me
Theme song to my city
Love with you is easy
Altitude is increasing
Inspiration your name
Inspiration your name
poem by Gabriel Rodriguez
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The Last Stand
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eduardo Noriega, Forest Whitaker, Genesis Rodriguez, Jaimie Alexander, Peter Stormare, Johnny Knoxville, Rodrigo Santoro
from The Last Stand (2013)
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A Well Crafted Word
Why am I so philosophical, a philosopher a long time ago once wrote.
The song writer, script writer, poet and novelist like to use a great quote.
Some poems are written with a catchy rhyme and a theme.
A well crafted word can help and be a great writers dream.
Everyone knows that the pen is mightier than the sword.
A well crafted word can give the reader great reward.
'A metaphor is just like a simile'; An unknown author once quoted.
It's true about all writers I know, they all hate their words being misquoted.
To writers one and all, a well crafted word is always a must to write down.
Just remember this about all writers, they can make great use of a pronoun.
poem by Nichole Kaci McKnight
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Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
quote by Peter Bichsel
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Caricatures
There are writers great and writers small
And writers on the spree;
And writers short and writers tall,
And bards of low degree.
There are artists small and artist great,
With lines both bold and free –
It takes a Low to illustrate
Us bards of low degree.
poem by Henry Lawson
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Online Chat
Bored... nothing to do says:
Hello! Hi! How are you? :)
Fan of Peter Pan says:
Fine. I'm getting a tan.: P
MSN is cool! : D says:
I'm doing stuff for school.: (
Bored... nothing to do says:
I'm doing homework too! : o
Fan of Peter Pan says:
I've got to go now, man.: '(
Fan of Peter Pan has left the conversation.
Bored... nothing to do has left the conversation.
poem by Cheryl Cheng
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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.
quote by Peter Gabriel
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Most Writers
Most writers 'twould seem have moments of self doubt
But they never go short of things to write about
And to become a top writer of one a big ask
And to succeed as a writer for many seems too daunting a task.
Most writers do not write for wealth or for fame
And despite lack of success they pen on just the same
For every one hundred thousand writers perhaps one writing millionaire
Amongst the ranks of the wealthy the writers are rare.
Few writers can hope for to scale success height
For the love of writing they only do write
Few writers get published and fewer know of success
But in their writings on paper their thoughts they express.
Most writers will never know wealth and renown
And they are not even well known in their own Hometown
They never will be known beyond their home shore
They write for the love of it and little more.
poem by Francis Duggan
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My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
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.
quote by Peter Gabriel
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