Phil Collins Quotes
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
Quotes to Explore
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.
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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
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The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.
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Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.
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I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.
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In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.
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As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.
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As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
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The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
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I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
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I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.
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Of course whenever you make the playoffs it's an exciting time of year. All the past records go out the window, but at the same time it's a one-shot deal and you have to get it right the first time or else you have to go home for the summer. Every kids' dream is to make it to the state tournament. Our kids are no different from anybody else.
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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.
