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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
James McMahon

Graham Coxon: ‘Music has always been there for me’

‘I’m panicking about how many years I have left to make music’: Graham Coxon.
‘I’m panicking about how many years I have left to make music’: Graham Coxon. Photograph: Ki Price

I was a brat during Britpop. There was so much to rail against. But I should have been more grateful for my good fortune and looked after myself better and tried to enjoy it innocently. My problem with Blur was when it became a business. But a bigger problem was when my own people started talking in that language. When it all became about breaking America, or whatever.

When people get older their music gets rubbish. You’ve learned a bit more about yourself, mellowed out, maybe done a bit of therapy… – that young, fiery, uncompromising outlook you once had starts to get the edges knocked out of it. I’m not talking about myself, obviously.

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