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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."
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"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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"I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing."
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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."
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"I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public."
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Explore more quotes by Graham Coxon

"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."
Audience

"I love the magic of the studio."
Love

"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."
American

"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."
Life

"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."
Cynicism

"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."
Life

"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."
Time

"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."
Art

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

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