Song Quotes by Jamie Cullum

My only ambition is to grow as a musician.

— Jamie Cullum

My pure love is playing music.

— Jamie Cullum

I know that I can't find. That song going round in my head. Like the last things you said.

— Jamie Cullum

I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano…

— Jamie Cullum

I never use a piano stool. I always use a drum stool. Because I feel that when you're down there, you're playing…

— Jamie Cullum

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs…

— Jamie Cullum

I'm way down the scale in terms of technical ability, ... But my emotional connection is very apparent. A lot of jazz…

— Jamie Cullum

If there's music in the night, and it's really, really right, it's the only thing I need. It intoxicates your mind. All…

— Jamie Cullum

It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I…

— Jamie Cullum

I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach.…

— Jamie Cullum

I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars,…

— Jamie Cullum

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are…

— Jamie Cullum

Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that,…

— Jamie Cullum

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I…

— Jamie Cullum

Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called…

— Jamie Cullum

In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus £70 delivery. It…

— Jamie Cullum

When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always…

— Jamie Cullum

See, in the rock bands and stuff I was in, I'd always been a fairly animated performer, but when I played jazz,…

— Jamie Cullum

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any…

— Jamie Cullum