Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Phil Collins
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 30
Actor
Autobiographer
Bandleader
Composer
Drummer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Model
Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer
London
England
Philip David Charles Collins
Use
Whereas
Shows
Machine
Young
Machines
Better
Older
Matter
Cost
People
Playing
Drum
Maybe
Realise
Show
Realising

More quotes by Phil Collins

Image
This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.
Phil Collins
Image
As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.
Phil Collins
Image
I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
Phil Collins
Image
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.
Phil Collins
Image
The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.
Phil Collins
Image
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
Phil Collins
Image
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
Image
That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'
Phil Collins
Image
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
Image
Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
Phil Collins
Image
You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons
Phil Collins
Image
I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
Phil Collins
Image
It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.
Phil Collins
Image
I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.
Phil Collins
Image
They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]
Phil Collins
Image
You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.
Phil Collins
Image
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
Phil Collins
Image
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.
Phil Collins
Image
Perception determines insanity.
Phil Collins
Image
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