Chris de Burgh Quotes

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Chris de Burgh

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 15, 1948

My house is a very calm and beautiful place and is full of positive energy.

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Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.

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In my 20s, I got into giving people massages and realised I was able to encourage their bodies to heal by passing my hands over them. I'd never describe myself as a faith healer - it's just that if someone believes in this type of healing, I can help release whatever blockage it is that's preventing them healing themselves.

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I know every side of the industry after all these years.

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I think it's the Canadian spirit that encourages people to dream a little bit.

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I developed my armour at prep school. I was the smallest guy in the school. I got bullied a lot. So I developed broad shoulders.

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My secondary schooling was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, so I'm fond of that part of the world. It's quintessentially English, with village greens, pubs and cricket pitches, and resonates strongly with me.

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I'm emotionally untouchable.

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I was born in Argentina, and have lived in England, Ireland, Africa and Malta.

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I am a humanist.

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Every generation has to have its heroes.

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I remember years ago hearing a top band talking about a song of theirs that was a monster hit and they were really dissing it, saying that they hoped they'd never have to play it again. I thought: 'That's not right. If people love a song, play it.'

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I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.

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I will never forget seeing Alien when it came out in 1979. I'm not that big a fan of horror, but I remember the slow build, the claustrophobic feeling on the spacecraft, this tremendous sense of impending doom.

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I'm not a fool with my money. I've known what it's like to be poor and I don't splash it around stupidly.

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I don't spend much on myself. It's a bit of a joke within the family.

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We are not politically naive.

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My father fought behind Japanese lines in the second world war and it traumatised him. Everybody who knew him from before said he was the life and soul of the party - fun to be with - but after the war he was different.

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It's critically important to have family around me, and some of my happiest moments are when I'm just with my family.

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I spent a lot of my childhood saying goodbye because I went to boarding school. I didn't resent my parents for sending me there so young as I understood the limitations of the education system in Africa, where we lived at the time.

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