Quotes by Graham Coxon

About Graham Coxon:

Graham Leslie Coxon is an English musician, singer-songwriter and painter who came to prominence as a founding member of the rock band Blur. As the group's lead guitarist and secondary vocalist, Coxon is featured on all eight of Blur's studio albums, from 1991's Leisure to 2015's The Magic Whip, despite being absent from the group from 2002 to 2008 owing to a dispute with the other members. He has also led a solo career since 1998. As well as being a musician, Coxon is a visual artist: he designed the cover art for all his solo albums as well as Blur's 13.
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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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

I love the magic of the studio.

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

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

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

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

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

Graham Coxon

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

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

Author Bio

  • NameGraham Coxon
  • DescriptionBritish musician and artist
  • BornMarch 12, 1969
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Banjoist; Composer; Painter