Jamie Cullum Quotes

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• I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.
• Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice…
• When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.
• My only ambition is to grow as a musician.
• I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.
• A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One…
• I love traditional shoes. I have a nice couple of pairs of traditional Oxford-style shoes, a pair of Edward Green shoes, and I aspire to…
• I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My interest in that…
• My pure love is playing music.
• Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that, and those guys…
• I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some…
• I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat…
• My grandfather, Harry, died when my dad was in his early 20s, so I never met him. Amazingly, he was 6ft tall. That gene definitely…
• My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell…
• As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my…
• Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want…
• My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in…
• See, in the rock bands and stuff I was in, I`d always been a fairly animated performer, but when I played jazz, I wasn`t sure…
• I`d like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I`ll start my own label to get other artists…
• I`m going for sound really, and my fingers just go places. It`s very, very strange, especially when something really good is happening, and you look…

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