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 COLLINSYou know, I’ve released some great records and I’ve released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
More Phil Collins Quotes
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There’s something perverse isn’t there, if you’re playing in front of 100,000 people and there’s 2000 people down the front who don’t like, you think: what is it that they don’t like?
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To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.
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Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.
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God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles
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As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
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You know, I’ve released some great records and I’ve released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
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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.
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To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don’t want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time
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I’d love to work with Disney again.
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We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
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They’re the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]
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And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
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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.
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It’s not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I’m very, very proud of that.
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Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.
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