That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
Touring is easy. My wife will be with me a lot of the time. We get spoilt rotten, and all I have… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
If the heads of all the music companies had known about music and about Chris Rea fans, they wouldn't have worried about… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I'd bump into people who mattered, such as Ry… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted, most of all, to be a writer of films and film music. But Middlesbrough in 1968… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I'd become a corporate rock musician. I worked for 'Chris Rea.' He felt like another person. I even talked about him in… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I am in that unique little club where I went into music because I love music, not because I wanted to be… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
My ambition, a long time ago, was to be a film music writer. A compromise then was to be the guy who… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton's scales - when he comes off a high note and it's time for a refrain or a little bit of a rest,… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I actually, truly do love my family. It's not a public relations exercise. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
Nothing was ever clean enough for my father. You could never clean as good as he could; you could never clean as fast and… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
My father used to control the wholesale of many ice-cream items in Middlesbrough. He was central distributor for most of the region. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I think all the business stuff - the promotion, the hype, the high-power lunches, and the permanently injected smiles - is boring. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
You can waste a whole lifetime Trying to be What you think is expected of you But youll never be free — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
