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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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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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 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'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.
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Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
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Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.
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My parents made every effort to encourage me to pursue anything in life that I enjoyed or found appealing so that I would be able to better understand myself and my passions as I grew up.
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Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.
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I've got a phobia about throwing up.
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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.
