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" 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
Playing
Luck
Living
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" 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. "
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" I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me. "
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" When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food. "
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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 do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate 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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" Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours. "
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" I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history. "
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" You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing. "
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" 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. "
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Me
Hot
" I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class. "
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" 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. "
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" Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that. "
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" It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that. "
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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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" I prefer black music in general. "
Phil Collins
Black Music
General
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" I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. "
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Who
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" And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. "
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