Quotes by Mike Rutherford

• Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
• I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.
• I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.
• Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
• When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.