Chris de Burgh Quotes

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Chris de Burgh

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 15, 1948

When I held my first album in my hands, I tell you, there were tears falling down my face. I thought 'This is it. I've arrived. I'm going to be an overnight world star.'

Chris de Burgh

It's every songwriter's dream to come up with a standard.

Chris de Burgh

Americans are much easier to please than Canadians. The American taste is less critical. Canadians are more cultured, they are more aware of the arts than Americans.

Chris de Burgh

In an outdoor environment, you need to be more energetic. The attention of the crowd begins to wander - not like an indoor concert where the audience attention is riveted on to the stage.

Chris de Burgh

I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.

Chris de Burgh

Before I ever did a stage concert, I'd done hundreds of living-room concerts, which helped a lot.

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I studied French and English literature because I liked it.

Chris de Burgh

I'm far more interested in putting a little more meat into the lyrics than some people are.

Chris de Burgh

I can rock along with the best of them.

Chris de Burgh

When you're a solo artist and you're not doing well, it can be pretty tough. So when success does come, it feels like you've earned it.

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I struggled for so many years.

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I think that every songwriter would give their right arm to come up with a standard that is going to be played long after they're dead.

Chris de Burgh

You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.

Chris de Burgh

I'd been to South Africa during the Seventies, when it was definitely not kosher to go there. I felt that the best thing to do was to be a missionary and tell people what was going on in their own country because censorship was so dreadful.

Chris de Burgh

I can fix dishwashers. I was brought up in a castle with no money and lots of imagination. I learnt a lot about plumbing at an early age.

Chris de Burgh

I am happy in my own skin.

Chris de Burgh

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

Chris de Burgh

You know you get a tube of toothpaste... such a bloody con. You squeeze and squeeze and nothing more comes out? Well, take a pair of scissors and cut it about an inch and a half from the bottom and it's absolutely packed with stuff! I do that, then cut off the top bit, so I can stick that back on and it doesn't dry out!

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My mother was actually a breeder, believe it or not, and she used to name horses after some of my songs.

Chris de Burgh

I regularly visualise my body from head to toe, and wait for it to tell me if there's anything wrong.

Chris de Burgh