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I'm never happy with anything I've done! If you sat me down and played everything I've ever recorded, I'd just sit there going, 'No... that could be better.'
- Chris Rea
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#Done
#Everything
#Me
#Never
My daughter is 15. None of her friends know who the hell Chris Rea is, but they know that song - as soon as it comes on, they start singing it. I've played with everyone from Status Quo to Talk Talk, but nothing impresses them as much as the fact that I play on 'Driving Home for Christmas.'
- Chris Rea
#Christmas
#Hell
#Home
#Song
#Start
The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.
- Chris Rea
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#Blue
#Gold
#Road
#Want
When 'The Road To Hell' happened, I didn't know what I was doing. Your diary fills up, and you have no objectivity. At home, you're trying your best to fit in. Sometimes I'd race from Heathrow to find myself sitting in a village hall watching my kids. It felt really weird. I didn't enjoy it.
- Chris Rea
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#Home
#Myself
#Village
#Weird
You do some crazy things when you're young.
- Chris Rea
#Crazy Things
#Crazy
#Some
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#Young
If the heads of all the music companies had known about music and about Chris Rea fans, they wouldn't have worried about 'Stony Road.' My regular fans have always known that side of me.
- Chris Rea
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#Fans
#Me
#Music
#Road
I bought a Hofner guitar and amplifier for 32 guineas, then spent ages trying to make a bottleneck. At that point, I was meant to be developing my father's ice-cream cafe into a global concern, but I spent all my time in the stockroom playing slide guitar.
- Chris Rea
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#Father
#Guitar
#Meant To Be
#Time
The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I'd bump into people who mattered, such as Ry Cooder or Randy Newman. I was disappointed to see the people I'd always thought of as pop stars. They would charge around the stage rather than enjoy the music.
- Chris Rea
#First Time
#Music
#People
#Stars
#Time
I played a gig at the Montreax Jazz Festival once - and on a song called 'It's All Gone,' I had to do free-form slide solo. It's the best thing I've ever done - because I wasn't thinking about it.
- Chris Rea
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#Done
#Jazz
#Song
#Thinking
Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my mam's bedroom because she had a double mirror, and I wanted to see what the back of my hair was doing. She had an alarm-clock radio, and it came on with this old guy moaning and hollering, playing this strange guitar.
- Chris Rea
#Bedroom
#Doing
#Guitar
#Hair
#Mirror
'Course, 'Santini' bombed in England, y'know. It came out at the height of the New Wave, which couldn't have been a worse time for a solo singer trying to sell rock melodies.
- Chris Rea
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#New
#Rock
#Time
#Trying
Nothing was ever clean enough for my father. You could never clean as good as he could; you could never clean as fast and as thorough as he could.
- Chris Rea
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#Fast
#Father
#Good
#Nothing
My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.
- Chris Rea
#Blind
#Blues
#Gospel
#Heroes
#Players
It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.
- Chris Rea
#Behind
#Curtain
#Iron
#Life
#My Life
You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car, and a lot of it is to do with the colour.
- Chris Rea
#Car
#Colour
#F1
#Ferrari
#Red
#Theme
I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.
- Chris Rea
#Garden
#Gardening
#I Can
#Painting
#Time
My father's family were Italian ice cream men, and the knowledge was passed on, so I ran an ice cream van while I was dating my wife.
- Chris Rea
#Dating
#Family
#Knowledge
#Men
#Wife
If I'm ever stuck on the M25 - the 'Road to Hell' - I'll wind the window down and start singing, 'I'm driving home for Christmas' at people in cars alongside. They love it. It's like giving them a present.
- Chris Rea
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#Hell
#Home
#Love
#Window
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