Top 90 Phil Collins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”

— Phil Collins

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2. “Think twice; it’s just another day for you and me in paradise.”

— Phil Collins

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3. “The world is in your hands, now use it.”

— Phil Collins

4. “I’m not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I’m a drummer that sings a bit.”

— Phil Collins

5. “Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.”

— Phil Collins

6. “Put your faith in what you most believe in.”

— Phil Collins

7. “Love can make you do things that you never thought possible.”

— Phil Collins

8. “Take a look at me now, cause there’s just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that’s what I’ve got to face.”

— Phil Collins

9. “You can wipe off that grin, I know where you’ve been, it’s all been a pack of lies.”

— Phil Collins

10. “Beyond a certain point, the music isn’t mine anymore. It’s yours.”

— Phil Collins

11. “Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers.”

— Phil Collins

12. “The answer is inside your head; it’s easy to find if you take it logically.”

— Phil Collins

13. “Before you write – remember that every speech has something of ‘you’ in the writing. Don’t take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.”

— Phil Collins

14. “God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles.”

— Phil Collins

15. “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

16. “Would you respect me if I didn’t have this gun? Cause without it, I don’t get it, and that’s why I carry one.”

— Phil Collins

17. “When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.”

— Phil Collins

18. “You’ll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons.”

— Phil Collins

19. “Genesis fans are a religious group!”

— Phil Collins

20. “It’s actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don’t like me.”

— Phil Collins

21. “Deep inside us we’re not that different at all.”

— Phil Collins

22. “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

23. “To be honest, I couldn’t hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English – and that’s a struggle sometimes!”

— Phil Collins

24. “When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.”

— Phil Collins

25. “Testimony is contingent on experience, that’s why we’re all free spirits.”

— Phil Collins

26. “The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.”

— Phil Collins

27. “The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.”

— Phil Collins

28. “I just don’t think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I’m fortunate that I make ends meet.”

— Phil Collins

29. “I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.”

— Phil Collins

30. “I prefer black music in general.”

— Phil Collins

31. “I don’t really listen to music.”

— Phil Collins

32. “I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you’ve got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you’re in the charts.”

— Phil Collins

33. “And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.”

— Phil Collins

34. “There were ‘big stars’ at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.”

— Phil Collins

35. “When destiny calls you, you’ve got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you’ve got to move on.”

— Phil Collins

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36. “Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I’ve been told...”

— Phil Collins

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37. “Out of raw emotion emerges instinctive truth.”

— Phil Collins

38. “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

39. “I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.”

— Phil Collins

40. “In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: ‘It’s OK – we can just do instrumentals.’”

— Phil Collins

41. “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

42. “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

43. “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.”

— Phil Collins

44. “Everyones a hypercrit and if you don’t agree you’re a liar as well.”

— Phil Collins

45. “I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that’s not cool. But in the real world, there’s no shame in that at all.”

— Phil Collins

46. “My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.”

— Phil Collins

47. “I don’t own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you’re just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.”

— Phil Collins

48. “I’m sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn’t mean it to happen like that. It’s hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.”

— Phil Collins

49. “Perception determines insanity...”

— Phil Collins

50. “We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.”

— Phil Collins