Graham Quotes

"Anything thats got more of grahams guitar playing, im bound to like" Johnny Green of radiohead.

• I crapped on my jumper. I wanted to poo and I forgot it was tied around my waist. I had to throw it into someone's garden.
  
  
• Everyone, wherever they are in the world, knows what "la la la" means.
  
  
• Do I scare people? Perhaps a bit. Alex does, too, although in a different way...he's just so laidback. I'm not. The other week, my current girlfriend was giving me a hard time, and I sat against the wardrobe, and I just started bashing my head against it till I started getting fuzzy vision.
  
  
• I've always been hideously noisy onstage - that's where I get my own back.
  
  
• If he (Damon) goes on about football and page three girls that means we all get associated with it. I hate football and I hate page three girls, but people always want to hear Damon's opinion.
  
  
• Damon wasn't liked at school and I thought he was a vain wanker.
  
  
• The first thing Damon ever said to me was that his shoes were more expensive than mine. Eventually he went of to work in drama school in London ~1991
  
  
• You become totally aware of your every action. It's a very weird thing not to be able to walk to the shops without thinking of yourself as the guitarist from Blur walking to the shops ~1991
  
  
• We're very dissatisfied with anything that isn't slightly....twisted. I like people like John Lennon who are stars in a totally anti-star way ~1991
  
  
• We're quite strict about being musically correct, using the right chords ~1991
  
  
• I play Gibson Les Paul guitar live because it's reliable, powerful, strong enough, and heavy enough to work really well and survive ~1991
  
  
• I don't use much vibrato ~1991
  
  
• Damon? Sexy? He's about as sexy as a stuffed fish, pal ~1994
  
  
• Jack Daniels makes us all puke ~1994
  
  
• Of course, I'm a headonist. What else is there to live for? ~1994
  
  
• Japanese audiences dye their hair blond, dress in Adidas zip-ups and Fred Perry tops-and then they put ties on as well ~1994
  
  
• I hate the video clip for 'Country House'. I love the song but the association with it becomes Page three and Benny Hill instead of Blur ~1995
  
  
• When we finsh one album, we immediately start thinking of the next one ~1995
  
  
• I don't feel famous at all. I've noticed it, and I suppose it's become an effort to be unfamous ~1995
  
  
• We used to drink so much. I'd have a bottle of under the chair my amp was sat on, and I'd swig my way through that ~1995
  
  
• It's a lot rawer, it may shock some people, but a lot of people will really love it. It's a lot to do with our 'world' ~ Graham talking about the album 'blur' ~ 1997

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** Most of these quotes were taken from "Blur: In Their Own Words by Mick St Michael" ** If you have any Graham quotes you'd like me to add email me and i'll add 'em on**

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