Graham Parker Quotes

#1. 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

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

Graham Parker

#3. I ain't shit! I ain't shit! shouts your brain, and this place proves the point.

Daniel Woodrell

#4. Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

Charles B. Rangel

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

Graham Parker

#6. Passion is no ordinary word

Graham Parker

#7. Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

John Updike

#8. Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

Ray Noorda

#12. We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.

Sheryl Crow

#13. My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

Jessica Walter

#14. Not much. I've very little imagination. It's the imaginative chaps who suffer." "'The coward dies a thousand deaths

K.J. Charles

#15. Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#16. 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

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

Graham Parker

#18. 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

#19. I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

Xavier Dolan

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

Graham Parker

#21. 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

#22. Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived.

Mark Durie