Graham Coxon Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Graham Coxon Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    I don't think of myself as a singer really. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    I love the magic of the studio. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 16
    I'm still amazed by the process of recording. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 17
    I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 19
    It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 20
    It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 21
    It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 22
    It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 25
    Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 26
    Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 27
    The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 28
    There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 29
    There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 30
    There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 31
    When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 32
    With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF
  • 33
    You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically. Graham Coxon | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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