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Chris Rea

Chris Rea

British Musician

Born: Mar 4, 1951

Guitar Me Music People Time You

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I actually, truly do love my family. It's not a public relations exercise. Chris Rea

Love Family Relations Exercise Truly Public Public Relations Actually

Ferraris are lovely cars, but I just don't want to be seen in them. Chris Rea

Car Seen Just Want Lovely Them

I think all the business stuff - the promotion, the hype, the high-power lunches, and the permanently injected smiles - is boring. Chris Rea

Business Hype Think Promotion Boring Stuff Smiles Permanently

I have found out who are my real friends, thanks to the illness and hospitals. Chris Rea

Thanks Out Hospitals Real Real Friends Friends Who Illness Found

That's why I've never made a live album - I can't bear listening to myself! Chris Rea

Myself Listening Made Live Bear Never Why Album

When I came down south and was put together with big producers, I always thought that they knew best. I never thought for a minute that they might have another agenda. Chris Rea

Best Together Thought Big Down Minute Never Put Knew Another Always Came South Might Agenda Producers

You do some crazy things when you're young. Chris Rea

Crazy You Young Some Crazy Things Things

I'd never intended to write a Christmas hit - I was a serious musician! Chris Rea

Christmas Musician Write Never Hit Intended Serious

Rock n' roll was my art school. For many people from working-class backgrounds, rock wasn't a chosen thing, it was the only thing: the only avenue of creativity available for them. Chris Rea

Art Creativity People School Avenue Backgrounds Only Rock Rock-N-Roll Art School Roll The Only Thing Available Them Working-Class Many Chosen Thing

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

Me You Happy Better Sit Down Everything Recorded Could Never Done Going Just Anything Sat Ever Played

The operation left me very emotional. I cry a lot anyway. I've always been the type to feel hurt easily, but now I hit rock bottom. Chris Rea

Me Hurt Type Easily Emotional Bottom Feel Cry Operation Rock Always Been Lot Left Very Hit Anyway Now

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

Best Song Gone Jazz Thinking Slide Once Solo Gig About Had Because Festival Done Ever Thing Played

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

You Car Colour Part Red Without Lot Ferrari Just Theme

I remember my first day at grammar school, being the only person who was me. Everybody else was like everybody else, and there I was, tanned, in a freezing cold playground in the middle of Middlesbrough, wondering what on earth I was doing there. Chris Rea

I'm lucky to be alive. I'm one of only 40 people who have survived the surgery I had, and when you've been that close to dying, you re-evaluate what's really important to you - and it's nothing to do with fame and money. Chris Rea

You People Money Important Nothing Alive Only Had Re-Evaluate Surgery Been Fame Close Survived Dying Really Who Lucky

Being on the road isn't hell - it's pure pleasure now. Chris Rea

Pure Hell Pleasure Road Being Now

Rather than missing home when I'm on tour, I miss tour when I'm at home. Chris Rea

Home Rather Tour Miss Missing Than

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