My mother was a classic matriarchal figure. She'd sing round the house and always had music on. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
My comedy comes from the actual music itself - they're observational musical gags. I could take the music away and it would… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Some musicians are a bit humourless about their art: they lose sight of the fact that as well as exercising their muse,… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I'm one for new things: I like new technology, I like new music, I'm not entrenched in some view of what culture… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
When I was in Cardiff, playing with the National Orchestra of Wales, they said they get letters from people complaining if they're… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
The point with me is that it's always been, even with the stand-up, that the music has to be right. You have… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I did a show in this tiny town called Longyearbyen. We went snowmobiling around Svalbard and saw Arctic foxes, snow bunting, polar bear footprints… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I hate getting ill, it irritates me so I try to stay reasonably healthy. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I am pretty laid-back as a parent, but I do like a lot of activity. So I am constantly suggesting things to do that… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I don't think any comic could say there isn't a bit of them that doesn't want to show off. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!! — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
