Graham Coxon Quotes & Sayings

I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer. — Graham Coxon

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

I love the magic of the studio. — Graham Coxon

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

I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal. — Graham Coxon

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

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy ... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that. — Graham Coxon

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking. — Graham Coxon

I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am. — Graham Coxon

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

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

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

Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something. — Graham Coxon

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play. — Graham Coxon

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam. — Graham Coxon

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

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live. — Graham Coxon

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

Jack Daniels makes us all puke. — Graham Coxon

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

My hobby is my job. it's a jobby! — Graham Coxon

I don't think of myself as a singer really. — Graham Coxon

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

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

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad. — Graham Coxon

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer. — Graham Coxon

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

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

I think it's better if blokes can admit that they can have crushes on other blokes. I've probably had crushes but never really sexual crushes on men. — Graham Coxon

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

I'm constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others there's a microscopic flaw about myself physically, which will make me embarrassed to walk the streets. — Graham Coxon

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

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

I'm still amazed by the process of recording. — Graham Coxon

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. — Graham Coxon

I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things. — Graham Coxon

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

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