Graham Parker Quotes

#1. I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

Graham Parker

#2. When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

Graham Parker

#3. Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

Graham Parker

#4. If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

Graham Parker

#5. I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

Graham Parker

#6. In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

Graham Parker

#7. I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I'd done all this traveling around, I came back living with my parents, everyone around me was like they're living in a soap opera.

Graham Parker

#8. I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Graham Parker

#9. Passion is no ordinary word

Graham Parker

#10. Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

Graham Parker

#11. Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

Graham Parker