The best Quotes by Phil Collins

The world is in your hands. Now use it!

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

London. The beating heart of England.

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.

In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.

It's harder to hold a hand than hold a gun.

Peace requires a steady hand.

The next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands.

Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

Many hands make light work. And many mouths make good gossip.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Music is reflection of self

"Ah, music"' he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.