"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."

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Source : "Phil Collins goes "Back" to Motown favorites". Interview with Craig McLean, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2010.

Phil Collins

#Week Quotes #Singles Quotes #Grew Quotes

“I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.”
“Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.”

Source : Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.476, Routledge
“This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again â€“ which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring â€“ works.”
“A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.”
“The rich man and his daughter are soon parted.”
“Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.”
“Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.”
“We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.”

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