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.
If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would. - Graham Parker
If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.
- 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 suit… - 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 suit…
Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad. - Graham Parker
Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.
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… - 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…
Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike. - Graham Parker
Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.
When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope. - Graham Parker
When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.
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 t… - 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 t…
Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms. - Graham Parker
Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.
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 doin… - 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 doin…
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