Peter Gabriel: Making

Peter Gabriel is English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian. Explore interesting quotes on making.

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“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…”

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

“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.”

Steam
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

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

“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.”

Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“What I carry in my heart
Brings us so close or so far apart.
Only love can make love.”

That Voice Again
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“The wretched desert takes its form, the jackal proud and tight.
In search of you, I feel my way, through the slowest heaving night.
Whatever fear invents, I swear it makes no sense.
I reach through the border fence.
Come down, come talk to me.”

Come Talk to Me
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

“Now we're busy making all our busy plans
On foundations built to last.
But nothing fades as fast as the future
And nothing clings like the past, until we can see.More than this,
More than this.
So much more than this.
There is something out there
More than this.
It's coming through
And more than this.
I stand alone and so connected
And I'm all there,
Right next to you.”

More Than This
Song lyrics, Up (2002)

“I'm scared of swimming in the sea,
Dark shapes moving under me.
Every fear I swallow makes me small.
Inconsequential things occur,
Alarms are triggered,
Memories stir.
It's not the way it has to be.”

Darkness
Song lyrics, Up (2002)