Mike Rutherford quotes

Mike Rutherford is an English musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the progressive rock band Genesis. His distinctive style blends guitar and bass work, contributing significantly to the band’s signature sound. He has also achieved success with his side project, Mike + The Mechanics. Here are 8 of his quotes:

I'm completely hooked on polo.

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.

Mike Rutherford

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.

Mike Rutherford

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Mike Rutherford

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

Mike Rutherford

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

Mike Rutherford

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

Mike Rutherford