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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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 feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.
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The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive. It’s your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it’s all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can’t-do-this, and can’t-do-that’s, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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You get the older version of women that you've played before.
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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.
