My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one. Chris Rea More Quotes by Chris Rea More Quotes From Chris Rea it's not until you become seriously ill and you nearly die and you're at home for 6 months, that you suddenly stop to realize that this isn't the way I intended it to be in the beginning. Everything that you've done falls away and start wondering why you went through all that rock business stuff. Chris Rea rocks home fall You can waste a whole lifetime Chris Rea waste trying thinking This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway, oh no, this is the road to hell. Chris Rea mobile hell evil Save your tears, you've got years. Chris Rea sadness tears years The voice has been my joker card that sometimes has played like an ace and sometimes a joker. When you sing the way I sing, it's impossible to get people to talk about anything else. Chris Rea you impossible sometimes people I didn't start until I was 21, and most people I know were 13 when they had their first guitar - I missed that time where you sit in your bedroom all day for years and accidentally you're doing classical training, although you're not thinking of it that way. It's not as easy, as you get older, to do all that kind of practice. Chris Rea day you time people I actually, truly do love my family. It's not a public relations exercise. Chris Rea public-relations family exercise love To say that losing your pancreas is a sad thing is not an overstatement. They had to take my pancreas away, my duodenum, and it's damaged for ever. Chris Rea your say sad losing Ferraris are lovely cars, but I just don't want to be seen in them. Chris Rea seen just lovely want I think all the business stuff - the promotion, the hype, the high-power lunches, and the permanently injected smiles - is boring. Chris Rea smiles think boring business It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life. Chris Rea behind my-life iron life I have found out who are my real friends, thanks to the illness and hospitals. Chris Rea who thanks friends real I do have this big weakness: I over-cooperate with people. People say it's because I'm Irish-Italian from Middlesbrough, and me dad was always like that, y'know - 'Get the job done.' Chris Rea job me dad people 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 road me music fans That's why I've never made a live album - I can't bear listening to myself! Chris Rea live never myself listening I was born in the overdub years. I wish there wasn't such a thing as a multitrack tape player, because what you heard would be the record. Chris Rea i-wish you born wish I didn't have any aspirations to be famous at all. Chris Rea aspirations famous any Music is a saviour for me. Chris Rea me saviour music It's impossible for a couple to bring up two children without having lots and lots of arguments. Chris Rea without impossible two children 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 mirror guitar strange hair
