“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.” WritingIdeasSongFunRageSiteAndrew Author:Graham Parker
“Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.” MenActorsTerriblePopsSingers Author:Graham Parker
“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.” DoneParentFrontsTvsEnglandSatOperaSoapUneducatedSoap OperasVery InspiringEducated And Uneducated Author:Graham Parker
“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.” WritingSoulSongIntroducingBedroomWriting SongsMusic Soul Author:Graham Parker
“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.” WritingSongMorningSunBandBirdRanWriting SongsDocksMoroccoPegasus Author:Graham Parker
“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.” LittlesIdeasEnoughSongGuitarFlatsArrangementsNuanceAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Graham Parker
“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.” FirstsCompanyRecordsInvolvedSmartManagersRecord CompaniesDaveVery Smart Author:Graham Parker
“When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites.” SoulSometimesKidsUsedKnownBoysCuttingHairSceneRedSuitsCrewMusic SoulPrototypeMotownBustersSuspenders Author:Graham Parker
“Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.” IfsHas BeensSaidRoomsAliveTalentSurvivalUnlikelyContingencyThames Author:Hugh Massingberd
“There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.” PeopleHappenedWorstSurvivalSurvivedTranscendent Author:Carol Lynn Pearson