Peter Garrett Quotes

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.
Peter Garrett

Everyday, Level, Fortunate

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
Peter Garrett

Life, Yourself, Spend

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.
Peter Garrett

Change, Through, Quite

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.
Peter Garrett

Living, Off, Australia

As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.
Peter Garrett

Far, Crowd, Smell

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.
Peter Garrett

Change, Matter, Community

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
Peter Garrett

Change, Strong, Action

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.
Peter Garrett

Knowledge, Brave, Coming

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.
Peter Garrett

Spirit, Movement, Divine

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
Peter Garrett

Parents, Blame, Often

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
Peter Garrett

Success, Nature, Words

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.
Peter Garrett

Faith, Issue, Chosen

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.
Peter Garrett

Money, Pretty, Getting

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
Peter Garrett

Weather, Australia, Ancient

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
Peter Garrett

Change, Lies, Individual

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.
Peter Garrett

Change, Deep, Done

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
Peter Garrett

Change, Find, Start

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.
Peter Garrett

Time, Career, Path

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
Peter Garrett

Natural, Senses, Convey

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.
Peter Garrett

State, Though, Sign

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.
Peter Garrett

Work, Hard, Few

That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.
Peter Garrett

Real, Play, Else

The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
Peter Garrett

May, Place, Here

The fact is that we take music very seriously.
Peter Garrett

Music, Fact, Seriously

The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
Peter Garrett

Change, Power, Play

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Nationality: Australian

Born: April 16, 1953

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