Phil Collins Quotes

Often there’s a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.
PHIL COLLINS

Country Person Half Remember
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.
PHIL COLLINS

Fighting Musician Together
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
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
They’re the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]
PHIL COLLINS

Brave Giving Opportunity
It’s not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I’m very, very proud of that.
PHIL COLLINS

Drummer Oscar Proud
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
God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles
PHIL COLLINS

Bath Individual Spa Water
As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
PHIL COLLINS

Promotion Records Soon
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
PHIL COLLINS

Album Country Honest Person Record
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
PHIL COLLINS

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

Country Person Shabby Stay
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?
PHIL COLLINS

Like People Something Thinking
And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
PHIL COLLINS

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

Again Charavter Disney Love
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
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
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

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