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.

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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.

  

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  • Men
  • Story
  • Liberty

• 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 Genesis
  • Australia
  • Hotels
  • BA Crew

• 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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  • Voice
  • Everyday
  • Steam room

• I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

  

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  • Write
  • Script
  • Happier

• The world is in your hands, now use it.

  

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  • World

• Well, if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand. I've seen your face before my friend But I don't know if you know who I am. Well, I was there and I saw what you did I saw it with my own two eyes. So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been. It's all been a pack of lies

  

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  • Friend
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• 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.

  

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  • Record
  • Shock
  • Stores

• I know the reason why you keep your silence up, No you don't fool me. The hurt doesn't show But the pain still grows It's no stranger to you and me.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Up
  • Why
  • Pain

• I can't remember those words (Lyrics) even when we were on tour.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Lyrics

• 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.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Strange
  • Crossing
  • Dateline

• My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Things
  • Grace
  • Collect

• I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Album
  • Fantastic
  • ABBA

• It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • English
  • Drummer
  • Oscar

• I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Alamo
  • Nutter

• Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun. So I've been told...

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Fun

• I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord. And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh Lord. Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Life
  • Air
  • Waiting

• In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Left
  • Songwriters
  • Genesis

• I wouldn't blow my head off. I'd overdose or do something that didn't hurt. But I wouldn't do that to the children. A comedian who committed suicide in the Sixties left a note saying, 'Too many things went wrong too often.' I often think about that.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Children
  • Hurt
  • Blow

• Stewart Copeland is an amazing drummer. I just wish he didn't think he was amazing. Sting is a lovely bloke. We've become friends. I felt honored to be on stage with him at Live Aid.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Wish

• 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 Genesis
  • Failed
  • Marriages
  • Personal Criticism

• 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 Genesis
  • Thinking
  • Alamo

• 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 Genesis
  • Book
  • Written
  • Alamo

• Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Music
  • Mine
  • Isn`t

• That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Trouble
  • Wishing