Phil Collins Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Love can make you do things that you never thought possible”
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“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
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“I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.”
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“Put your faith in what you most believe in.”
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“It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.”
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“You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.”
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“When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.”
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“When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.”
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“There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.”
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“I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.”
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“I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.”
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“That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'”
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“I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.”
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“Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.”
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“I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.”
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“You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.”
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“Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.”
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“When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.”
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“I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...”
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“Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.”
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“Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.”
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“I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.”
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“You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment...Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.”
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“Deep inside us we're not that different at all.”
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“I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.”
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“I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.”
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“If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.”
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“It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.”
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“No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.”
-- Phil Collins
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