Peter Gabriel Quotes (56 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

Song lyrics, So (1986)
Context: Rest your head.
You worry too much.
It's going to be alright.
When times get rough,
You can fall back on us.
Don't give up;
Please don't give up.

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

Peter Gabriel

In Your Eyes
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Context: I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive.

“It's the time of turning and there's something stirring outside.
It's the time of turning and the old world's falling.
Nothing you can do can stop by the next emerging.
Time of the turning and we'd better learn to say our goodbyes.”

Peter Gabriel

The Time of the Turning
Song lyrics, OVO (2000)

Peter Gabriel Quotes about dreams

“Give me steam.
And how you feel to make it real;
Real as anything you've seen.
Get a life with this dreamer's dream.”

Peter Gabriel

Steam
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

“Looking down on empty streets, all she can see
Are the dreams all made solid
Are the dreams all made real.”

Peter Gabriel

Mercy Street
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream
I cannot make a single sound as you scream.
It can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch.
This place is so quiet, sensing that storm.”

Peter Gabriel

Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“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.”

Peter Gabriel

Fourteen Black Paintings
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

“Did I dream this belief
or did I believe this dream
how I will find relief
I grieve…”

Peter Gabriel

I Grieve
Song lyrics, City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture (1998)

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“The place where I come from is a small town.
They think so small;
They use small words
-But not me.
I'm smarter than that.
I worked it out.
I've been stretching my mouth
To let those big words come right out.”

Peter Gabriel

Big Time
Song lyrics, So (1986)

Thinking

“The Man with the Child in His Eyes is still one of those things, which right from the get-go … has its own life, because it's just a great song.”

Peter Gabriel

The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: The Man with the Child in His Eyes is still one of those things, which right from the get-go … has its own life, because it's just a great song. … For all the time that she or I or anyone spend decorating and creating moods, its actually the key element of what your saying, the melody and the chords which still speak louder than all the stuff around, on a great song.

Life

“I come to you defenses down,
With the trust of a child.”

Peter Gabriel

Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Context: Red rain-
Putting the pressure on much harder now
To return again and again.
Just let the red rain splash you,
Let the rain fall on your skin.
I come to you defenses down,
With the trust of a child.

Peter Gabriel Quotes

“Love I get so lost, sometimes.
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.”

Peter Gabriel

In Your Eyes
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Context: Love I get so lost, sometimes.
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
When I want to run away,
I drive off in my car.
But whichever way I go,
I come back to the place you are.

Love , Heart

“I was taught to fight, taught to win;
I never thought I could fail.”

Peter Gabriel

Don't Give Up, Duet written by Gabriel, sung with Kate Bush
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Context: In this proud land we grew up strong;
We were wanted all along.
I was taught to fight, taught to win;
I never thought I could fail.No fight left or so it seems;
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted.
I've changed my face, I've changed my name,
But no one wants you when you lose.

Fight

“Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality.”

Peter Gabriel

On Kate Bush
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality. And, you know, I think her courage, which is the positive way of interpreting it, or bloody-mindedness, which is the negative, is part of what gives her real value as an artist.

Freedom

“It’s only in uncertainty
That we’re naked and alive.”

Peter Gabriel

That Voice Again, written by Peter Gabriel and David Rhodes
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Context: I’m hearing right and wrong so clearly.
There must be more than this.
It’s only in uncertainty
That we’re naked and alive.

“We do what we're told,
Told to do.”

Peter Gabriel

We Do What We're Told
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“Life carries on
In the people I meet
In everyone that’s out on the street
In all the dogs and cats
In the flies and rats
In the rot and the rust
In the ashes and the dust
Life carries on and on and on and on.”

Peter Gabriel

I Grieve
Song lyrics, City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture (1998)

Life , People , Dogs , Cats

“Fox the fox
Rat on the the rat
You can ape the ape
I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I can't take any more
Darling, don't you monkey with the monkey.”

Peter Gabriel

Shock The Monkey
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (IV), Security (1982)

“If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers — war without tears.”

Peter Gabriel

Games Without Frontiers
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (III) (1980)

War , Game , Tear

“Don't give up
'cos you have friends
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet.
Don't give up
I know you can make it good…”

Peter Gabriel

Don't Give Up
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“Don't talk back;
Just drive the car.
Shut your mouth;
I know what you are.
Don't say nothing;
Keep your hands on the wheel.
Don't turn around;
This is for real.
Digging in the dirt.
Stay with me, I need support.
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt.
Open up the places I got hurt.”

Peter Gabriel

Digging in the Dirt
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

Cars , Support , Hurt

“French for "Games without frontiers" (background vocals throughout the song, sung by Kate Bush)”

Peter Gabriel

Jeux sans frontieres
Games Without Frontiers
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (III) (1980)

Game

“Don't give up.
You know it's never been easy.
Don't give up.
'Cause I believe there's a place,
There's a place where we belong.”

Peter Gabriel

Don't Give Up
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“Turning the tide, you are on the incoming wave.
Turning the tide, you know you are nobody's slave.”

Peter Gabriel

Shaking the Tree
Song lyrics, Shaking the Tree (1990)

“There's nothing to gain when there's nothing to be lost.
There's nothing to gain if you stay behind and count the cost.
Make the decision that you can be who you can be,
You can be.
Tasting the fruit come to the Liberty Tree.”

Peter Gabriel

Shaking the Tree
Song lyrics, Shaking the Tree (1990)

Decision , Tree

“It's extraordinary what that song has been used for — I think a lot of people who have gotten into trouble, have attached themselves to that song, and I think a lot of it is Kate's wonderful voice is there, in a sort of reassuring and loving way, and it just makes them think that perhaps there is going to be that type of love out there for them.”

Peter Gabriel

On his duet with Kate on his song "Don’t Give Up", on his album So
The Kate Bush Story (2014)

Love , People , Way , Thinking

“Cover me, when I sleep
Cover me, when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine
Make the monkey blind
Cover me, darling please.
Monkey, monkey, monkey.
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey?”

Peter Gabriel

Shock The Monkey
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (IV), Security (1982)

Sleep , Swine

“You could have a steam train
If you'd just lay down your tracks.
You could have an aeroplane flying
If you bring your blue sky back.All you do is call me.
I'll be anything you need.”

Peter Gabriel

Sledgehammer
Song lyrics, So (1986)

Flying , Training

“I'm waiting for ignition, I'm looking for a spark
Any chance collision and I light up in the dark
There you stand before me, all that fur and all that hair
Oh, do I dare… I have the touch.”

Peter Gabriel

I Have The Touch
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (IV), Security (1982)

Light , Chance , Waiting

“And the eyes of the world are
watching now.”

Peter Gabriel

Biko
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (III) (1980)

World

“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.”

Peter Gabriel

In Your Eyes
Song lyrics, So (1986)

Light

“I caught sight of my reflection;
I caught it in the window.
I saw the darkness in my heart;
I saw the signs of my undoing.
They had been there from the start,
And the darkness still has work to do.
The knotted chord's untying.
They're heated and they're holy.
Oh they're sitting there on high.
So secure with everything they're buying.”

Peter Gabriel

Blood of Eden
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

Heart

“Red rain is coming down.
Red rain.
Red rain is pouring down,
Pouring down all over me.”

Peter Gabriel

Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree.
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree.”

Peter Gabriel

Shaking the Tree, written by Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour
Translation: If we had known, if we only had known.
Song lyrics, Shaking the Tree (1990)

Tree

“In the blood of Eden,
Lie the woman and the man.
With the man in the woman,
And the woman in the man.”

Peter Gabriel

Blood of Eden
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

Lie

“And in this moment, I need to be needed.
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.
I love to be loved.
I love to be loved.
Yes, I love to be loved.”

Peter Gabriel

Love to Be Loved
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

Love , Fear

“If we can stand up
When all else falls down,
We'll last through the winter.
We'll last through the storms.
We'll last through the north winds
That bring down the ice and snow.
We'll last through the long nights
Till the green field's growing again.
Growing again.”

Peter Gabriel

The Time of the Turning
Song lyrics, OVO (2000)