Phil Collins Quotes
I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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I can remember on the first day on 'Chatroom,' it was just one scene for the whole day, which was a really nice luxury to have.
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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
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I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
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Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
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God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.
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I think that contributed to it somewhat. So we live with that decision.
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If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.
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Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.
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Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.
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I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.
