Phil Collen famous quotes
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A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.
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If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.
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That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.
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It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.
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Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.
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Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.
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I think if you're inspired, you don't let a little thing like scheduling and deadlines get in your way.
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The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.
-- Phil Collen
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
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I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
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With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
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I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.
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Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.
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I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.
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