Peter Garrett quotes

Peter Garrett is an Australian musician, environmentalist, and politician with a career spanning decades. Born on April 16, 1953, Garrett rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the rock band Midnight Oil. His commanding stage presence and politically charged lyrics propelled the band to international success. In addition to his music career, Garrett has been actively involved in environmental activism, advocating for the protection of Australia's natural resources. He later transitioned to politics, serving as a prominent member of the Australian Labor Party and holding ministerial positions including Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. As a passionate advocate for social and environmental causes, Peter Garrett continues to inspire and make a difference in his various roles.

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

- Peter Garrett

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

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

- Peter Garrett

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

- Peter Garrett

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

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

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

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

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

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

- Peter Garrett

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

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

- Peter Garrett

The fact is that we take music very seriously.

- Peter Garrett

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

- Peter Garrett

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

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

- Peter Garrett

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

- Peter Garrett

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

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

- Peter Garrett

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

- Peter Garrett

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

- Peter Garrett

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

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

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

- Peter Garrett

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

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

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

- Peter Garrett