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Chris de Burgh

(1948) Singer-songwriter

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Chris de Burgh is a singer-songwriter.

Quick Facts About Chris de Burgh

Born: October 15, 1948
Profession: Singer-songwriter

About Chris de Burgh

[Wikidata] Argentine - British-Irish singer-songwriter and instrumentalist... | [Wikipedia] Christopher John Davison, known professionally as Chris de Burgh, is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician born in Argentina. He started out as an art rock performer and progressed to writing more pop-oriented material. He has had several top 40 hit singles in the UK and two in the US. He is more

Quotes by Chris de Burgh · Page 2

I've been to Australia, Russia and many of places I wanted to see as a child. But I've never visited India. I've…

Australia

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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.

Around

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I struggled for so many years.

Many

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Canada has a great tradition of supporting songwriters.

Canada

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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…

Bullied

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The relationship between parents and children who live together is a growing one, and it shifts every day, especially during the teenage…

Children

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

Argentina

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Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of…

Discipline

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I'm not a great meat eater - I eat it twice a week. But I can't stand fish - my mother says…

Bone

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I find it amazing when I get letters from people in Israel and people in Lebanon and they both love the music,…

Amazing

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I went to Bethlehem in Christmas 2015 to do a television show for German TV and we filmed in the Church of…

Born

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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…

Alien

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

Every

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I can fix dishwashers. I was brought up in a castle with no money and lots of imagination. I learnt a lot…

Age

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If you love yourself there's plenty left for everyone else. You just have to deflect natsy things.

Love

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Music was my first love, and at Marlborough we put bands together and sang the pop songs of the day. Although I…

First love

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I am happy in my own skin.

Happiness

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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.

Around

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I'd been to South Africa during the Seventies, when it was definitely not kosher to go there. I felt that the best…

Best

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

Canadian

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You get tarred with the brush of 'Lady in Red.' I play Russia or China or places all over the world. They…

Artist

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

Anything

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I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

Books

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You know you get a tube of toothpaste... such a bloody con. You squeeze and squeeze and nothing more comes out? Well,…

Back

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As a song-writer I have always written with one instrument - either guitar or piano - because I believe that if a…

Believe

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