These Phil Collins quotes will inspire you. Philip David Charles Collins LVO is an English drummer, singer, record producer, songwriter, and actor.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Phil Collins quotes, Phil Collins sayings, and Phil Collins proverbs.
Best Phil Collins Quotes
- “Love can make you do things that you never thought possible” ~ Phil Collins
- “In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Perception determines insanity.” ~ Phil Collins
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“Put your faith in what you most believe in.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Before you write – remember that every speech has something of ‘you’ in the writing. Don’t take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Think twice; it’s just another day for you and me in paradise.” ~ Phil Collins
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“Beyond a certain point, the music isn’t mine anymore. It’s yours.” ~ Phil Collins
- “The world is in your hands, now use it.” ~ Phil Collins
- “The answer is inside your head; it’s easy to find if you take it logically.” ~ Phil Collins
- “I’m not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I’m a drummer that sings a bit.” ~ Phil Collins
- “As I’ve got older, I’ve got more understanding of relationships and how they work – but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can’t paint everyone with the same color.” ~ Phil Collins
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“Things happen, but things happen and you follow… your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.” ~ Phil Collins
- “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
- “Deep inside us we’re not that different at all.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I’ve been told…” ~ Phil Collins
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“That’s going to be on my headstone: ‘He came. He wrote ‘In the Air Tonight.’ He… died.'” ~ Phil Collins
- “The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcendence of duality is the key.” ~ Phil Collins
- “It’s actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don’t like me.” ~ Phil Collins
- “I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry
There’s so much I need to say to you, so many reasons why
You’re the only one who really knew me at all
So take a look at me now, ‘cos there’s just an empty space
And there’s nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face
Take a look at me now, ‘cos there’s just an empty space
And you coming back to me is against all odds and that’s what I’ve got to face” ~ Phil Collins -
“I’m just trying to do things that are interesting for me.” ~ Phil Collins
- “We’re all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we’re close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar, God.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Everything has added up to a load that I’m getting tired of carrying. It’s gotten so complicated. It’s the three failed marriages and having kids that grew up without me, and it’s the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quantum Mechanics!” ~ Phil Collins
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“I’m glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we’re all the same, really.” ~ Phil Collins
- “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
- “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
- “On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I’m going to say.” ~ Phil Collins
- “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.” ~ Phil Collins
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“Genesis fans are a religious group!” ~ Phil Collins
- “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
- “I’ll have the music, and then I’ll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record, and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.” ~ Phil Collins
- “I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.” ~ Phil Collins , Phil Collins quotes love
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“I’m much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.” ~ Phil Collins
- “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
- “As I’ve gotten older and learned more, I realize that Hollywood has not told the truth.” ~ Phil Collins
- “To be honest, I couldn’t hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English – and that’s a struggle sometimes!” ~ Phil Collins
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“When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.” ~ Phil Collins
- “When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.” ~ Phil Collins
- “All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I’ve surpassed that.” ~ Phil Collins
- “This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.” ~ Phil Collins
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“As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.” ~ Phil Collins
- “If it’s the beginning of something – like an album, I’m working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Testimony is contingent on experience, that’s why we’re all free spirits” ~ Phil Collins
- “You can wipe off that grin, I know where you’ve been, it’s all been a pack of lies.” ~ Phil Collins
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“And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers” ~ Phil Collins
- “There’s no magic for getting into the groove… just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.” ~ Phil Collins
- “I can’t play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn’t bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can’t hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.” ~ Phil Collins , Phil Collins quotes life
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“I don’t really listen to music.” ~ Phil Collins
- “I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went in there for a ploughman’s and a pint, and you went home and watched TV. Believe me, there’s more to watch on British TV than American, except for CNN right now. But yeah, I miss it.” ~ Phil Collins
- “No seriously… when there’s families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there’s always someone who’s got something going, like the tour manager.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.” ~ Phil Collins
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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.” ~ Phil Collins
- “If Miles Davis hadn’t died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn’t much else that would have got me into the studio… although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.” ~ Phil Collins
- “It’s not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I’m very, very proud of that.” ~ Phil Collins
- “I’ve been a long-distance father.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project – like now, we’re just finishing off an album – and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.” ~ Phil Collins
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“I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.” ~ Phil Collins
- “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
- “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 realize that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.” ~ Phil Collins
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“I’m not sure at all about the current prog-rock scene.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Take a look at me now, ’cause there’s just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that’s what I’ve got to face.” ~ Phil Collins
- “I didn’t become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyze it, that a lot of people like you. It’s become a dirty word, and I don’t necessarily think it needs to be.” ~ Phil Collins
