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Phil Collins

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
PHIL COLLINS

Know Singer Wanted
I’d love to work with Disney again.
PHIL COLLINS

Again Charavter Disney Love
It’s not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I’m very, very proud of that.
PHIL COLLINS

Drummer Oscar Proud
Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.
PHIL COLLINS

Little Rocks Taste
You know, I’ve released some great records and I’ve released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
PHIL COLLINS

Creating Dog Fun
As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
PHIL COLLINS

Promotion Records Soon
Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.
PHIL COLLINS

Country Day Person Rocks
When you’re young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you’re older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.
PHIL COLLINS

Cost Machine People
I was talking to Australian press earlier, and they said: we never stopped playing you. I tended to forget about that. It brings a smile to your face that there is this continuing thing, that people like what you do.
PHIL COLLINS

Face People Talking
God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles
PHIL COLLINS

Bath Individual Spa Water
When destiny calls you, you’ve got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you’ve got to move on.
PHIL COLLINS

Memories Moving Strong
The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.
PHIL COLLINS

Band Rock Stars
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

Album Song Talking
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
PHIL COLLINS

Composer Drummer Machine
We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
PHIL COLLINS

Country Person Shabby Stay
Why did I like simpler songs? Just times change. This is one of the repeated things I hear: even though people will read different kinds of books, they don’t read Lord of the Rings when they’re 30 even though they did at 15.
PHIL COLLINS

Book People Song

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