Phil Collins
Singer
1951-01-30
English singer, songwriter, and drummer known for work with Genesis and a successful solo career. He became one of the most commercially successful artists of the 1980s.
Quotes by Phil Collins
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In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
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In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
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That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'
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The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
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I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
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'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.
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I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me.
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I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.
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