Top 142 Quotes & Sayings by Phil Collins - Page 3

God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles

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.

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

We all have the same problems in relationships.

I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.

They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]

I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

Everyones a hypercrit and if you don't agree you're a liar as well

I do miss things about Britain. I think there was a misconception, there definitely was, that I left because of bad press, and being pilloried. I left Britain because I fell in love with someone who lived in Switzerland - that was the main thing.

I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.

I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment...Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents

Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

The whole having records and selling records and being on TV, that was something that I didn't ever think would be for me. I thought that would be for other people. All I wanted to do was make a living playing the drums.

I'd love to work with Disney again.

You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.

I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.