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. Phil Collins More Quotes by Phil Collins More Quotes From Phil Collins 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 machines cost people As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. Phil Collins composer machines drummer 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. Phil Collins simple play thinking God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles Phil Collins baths individual water I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with. Phil Collins tattoo poor husband Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers Phil Collins thinker selfish principles Testimony is contingent on experience, that's why we're all free spirits Phil Collins testimony free-spirit spirit I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis. Phil Collins two father son We all have the same problems in relationships. Phil Collins relationship-problem problem Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow. Phil Collins dramatic happens heart Everyones a hypercrit and if you don't agree you're a liar as well Phil Collins you-re-a-liar wells liars 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 consideration wish kids I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff. Phil Collins flight stuff I'd love to work with Disney again. Phil Collins I've been a long-distance father. Phil Collins long-distance distance father 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. Phil Collins lasts gun night That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime. Phil Collins wish want may 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. Phil Collins would-be people thinking 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 switzerland missing thinking 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. Phil Collins skills practice thinking
