Quotes by Phil Collins - Page 3

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Phil Collins / Musician
Good Day
Language
Work Out
Work Good Day
English
Local
Sit
Speaks
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Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.
Phil Collins / Musician
Communication
Being Yourself
Writing
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Disappointment
Fantastic
Finished
Song
Bit
Bring
By The Time
Time Song Sometimes
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I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.
Phil Collins / Musician
Genesis
Kind
Shadow
Want
Earned
Joined
Stood
Willingly
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Belts
Bullets
Memorabilia
Thinking
Belt
Stopped
Bullet
Collector
Colonel
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We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.
Phil Collins / Musician
Running
Cutting
Eagles
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To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
Phil Collins / Musician
Firsts
Labels
Records
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To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
Phil Collins / Musician
Bigger
Demise
Disappear
Labels
Record Stores
Shock
Stores
Smaller
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I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.
Phil Collins / Musician
Computer
Groove
Use
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Aim
Interesting
Interesting Things
Movie Star
Stars
Trying
Necessarily
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There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't like, you think: what is it that they don't like?
Phil Collins / Musician
Like You
People
Thinking
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Albums
Film
Finishing
Genesis
Time Doing Nothing
Album
By The Time
Time Nothing Doing
Project
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As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.
Phil Collins / Musician
Different
Dynamics
Understanding
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Couple
Mark
Months
Rocks
Calls
Meeting
Via
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I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.
Phil Collins / Musician
Constant
Fascinating
Bought
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The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
Phil Collins / Musician
Both Sides
February
March
Sides
Touched
More People
Respects
Walls
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When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.
Phil Collins / Musician
Cost
Machines
People
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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 / Musician
Drink
Gigs
Guy
Rooms
Families
Gig
Manager
Seriously
Tour
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I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me.
Phil Collins / Musician
Conservative
Hangover
Influence
Teenager
Young
Since
Voted
Father Me Influence
Least
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I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.
Phil Collins / Musician
American History
Drumming
Fascinated
Seemed
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I was talking to Australian press earlier, and they said: we never stopped playing you. I tended to forget about that. It brings a smile to your face that there is this continuing thing, that people like what you do.
Phil Collins / Musician
Faces
People
Talking
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Australia
Crew
Half
Pool
Remember
Spending
Time Always Remember
Quite
Stay
Often
Time Remember Always
Half The Time
Hotels
Quite A Lot
Themselves
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Advantage
America
Cutting
Europe
Touring
Drive
Awful Lot
Checking
Cuts
Time Great America
Great Advantage
Literally
Plane
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The whole having records and selling records and being on TV, that was something that I didn't ever think would be for me. I thought that would be for other people. All I wanted to do was make a living playing the drums.
Phil Collins / Musician
People
Thinking
Would Be
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Why did I like simpler songs? Just times change. This is one of the repeated things I hear: even though people will read different kinds of books, they don't read Lord of the Rings when they're 30 even though they did at 15.
Phil Collins / Musician
Book
People
Song
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Kids
Disappointment
Song
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I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.
Phil Collins / Musician
Dirty
Mean
Successful
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There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.
Phil Collins / Musician
America
Bowie
Different Place
Mexican
Stars
Texas
Event
Map
Remained
San
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I do miss things about Britain. I think there was a misconception, there definitely was, that I left because of bad press, and being pilloried. I left Britain because I fell in love with someone who lived in Switzerland - that was the main thing.
Phil Collins / Musician
Missing
Switzerland
Thinking
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Broadway
Brother
New Songs
Score
Song
Writing
Version
Bear
Drums
Tarzan
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Albums
Combination
Died
Interesting
Miles
Would Be
Davis
Album
Me Doing Something
Touch
Although
Doing
Else
Got
Him
Studio
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Available
Half
Listening
Night
Steam
Voice
Night Day Every Day
Hang
Spend
Hour
Later
Room
There And Then
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I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went in there for a ploughman's and a pint, and you went home and watched TV. Believe me, there's more to watch on British TV than American, except for CNN right now. But yeah, I miss it.
Phil Collins / Musician
Home
Believe
Cnn
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I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.
Phil Collins / Musician
Bother
Bread
Cheese
Cutting
Drummer
Play
Things In Life
Used
Life Me Important
Anywhere
Far
Frankly
Hold
Loaf
Near
Piece
Point
Properly
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The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
Phil Collins / Musician
British
Caviar
Champagne
England
Typical
Aid
Version
Bought
Concert
Cup
Difference
Passes
Sandwich
Tour
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'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.
Phil Collins / Musician
Handful
Middle
Realizing
Renewal
Song
Sweet
Urban
Urban Renewal
Time Good Sweet
Good Time
Older
Road
Unfairly
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If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.
Phil Collins / Musician
Confused
Different Things
Fortunate
Musician
Always I Am People
Box
Stay
Dares
I Am People Always
Generally
Respects
Supposed
Tries
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I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets... They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums.
Phil Collins / Musician
Practice
Skills
Thinking
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Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.
Phil Collins / Musician
Play
Simple
Thinking
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Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.
Phil Collins / Musician
Doubt
Left
Liberty
Nobility
Romance
Die
Life Men Me
Quite
Appealed
Defending
Originally
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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.
Phil Collins / Musician
Kids
Complicated
Criticism
Fax
Insulting
Journalism
Load
Nice
Nice Guy
Tired
Added
Mr
Carrying
Failed
Gotten
Marriages
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I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry There's so much I need to say to you, so many reasons why You're the only one who really knew me at all So take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space And there's nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face Take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face
Phil Collins / Musician
Memories
Odds
Song
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