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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.

Phil Collins

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Phil Collins
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 30
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Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect.
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I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.
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I think I was the best drummer!
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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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I prefer black music in general.
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I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.
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I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
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The world is in your hands, now use it.
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I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets... They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums.
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I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.
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We all have the same problems in relationships.
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Deep inside us we're not that different at all.
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You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.
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I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.
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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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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.
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Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.
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