Quotes by Imelda May - Page 2

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.
Imelda May / Musician
Boyfriend
Finished
Allowed
Brought
Saw
Wear
Nuns
Scrub
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I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.
Imelda May / Musician
Nursing
Nursing Home
Gene
Hurry
Minute
Waving
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
Imelda May / Musician
Class Family
Family Music Way
Trained
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
Imelda May / Musician
Christmas
Garage
Shops
Art College
Cleaner
Windows
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I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.
Imelda May / Musician
Shopping
Stylist
Twice
Photo
Have Fun
Shoot
Outfit
Photo Shoot
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I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.
Imelda May / Musician
Festivals
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I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.
Imelda May / Musician
Nostalgic
Old Music
Influenced
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I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.
Imelda May / Musician
Clothes
Five
Heels
High Heels
Love Always People
Although
Love People Always
Foot
Places
Shape
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I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?
Imelda May / Musician
Boots
Couture
Fashion
Form
Juicy
Refuse
Sorry
Me Better Way
Appeal
Better Me Way
Wear
Move
Shape
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
Imelda May / Musician
Formal
Training
Music Myself Never
Ear
Hand
Jackson
Lift
Needle
Speaker
Sit
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I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.
Imelda May / Musician
Bloody
Tin
Cupboard
Exactly What
Penny
Survive
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
Imelda May / Musician
Audience
Band
Brilliant
Great I Am Will
American Audiences
Great I Am Doing
Nowhere
Close
Second
Spanish
Tops
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
Imelda May / Musician
Bluegrass
Different Countries
Ireland
Related
Rockabilly
Closely
Combine
Countries
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
Imelda May / Musician
Jazz
Rockabilly
Music Me Long
Blues
Raw
Shunned
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There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.
Imelda May / Musician
Ballads
Music Industry
Rocks
Strong Women
Wanna
Joan
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With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
Imelda May / Musician
Brilliant
Tunes
Artists
Perform
Elvis
Greatest Thing
Performance
Noticed
Sold
Tried
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
Imelda May / Musician
Making Mistakes
Sitting
Life Change Yourself
Mistakes
Breaking
Tour
Van
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I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.
Imelda May / Musician
Arctic
Harvey
Miles
Monkeys
Puppets
Shadow
Thrill
Lewis
Tom
Tom Waits
Waits
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
Imelda May / Musician
Favour
Rockabilly
Selling
Count
Ditch
Everybody Else
How Many People
Insisted
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The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.
Imelda May / Musician
Austria
Passionate
Sweden
American Audiences
Audiences
Somewhere
Little While
Lunatics
Spanish
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In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was.
Imelda May / Musician
Feels
No Turning Back
Originals
Temperature
Three
Water
Album
Turning
Favorite
Consider
Covers
Dipping
Head
Mostly
Toe
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
Imelda May / Musician
Cool
Goth
Lips
Paint
Wonder
Time Face Me
Looked
Pour
Tried
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When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.
Imelda May / Musician
Bonding
Brilliant
Exaggerating
Worth It
Great Your Me
Feed
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
Imelda May / Musician
Dad
Beautiful Music
Bowie
Brilliant
Brothers And Sisters
Heard
Mum
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Stuff
David
Brothers
Sisters
Loved
Garland
Judy
Miller
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I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
Imelda May / Musician
Glamorous
If I Could
Inspire
Davis
Hope Women Great
Bette
Bringing
Garland
Judy
Old Movies
Shirley
Temple
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
Imelda May / Musician
Fronts
Love Myself Always
Certain Things
Comparing
Hemingway
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
Imelda May / Musician
Catholic
Choices
Fine
Liked
James
Laugh
Mine
Wolf
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I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. I'm always writing little lines and saving them for later.
Imelda May / Musician
Inspiration
Talking
Writing
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
Imelda May / Musician
Changed
Fun
Mother
Motherhood
Numbers
Priorities
Violet
Life Change Best
Expect
Have Fun
Rebelling
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
Imelda May / Musician
Biology
Fields
Lessons
One Time
Ran
Worms
Announced
Bear
Dissected
Gathered
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
Imelda May / Musician
Crow
Fallen
Invited
London
Passing
Tree
Across
Animals
Beck
Ended
Jamming
Jeff
Jeff Beck
Oak
Park
Rescued
Turned
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One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.
Imelda May / Musician
Hitting
Selling
Vinyl
Business Music Me
Apiece
Different Types
Gotten
Record
Local
Present
Record Player
Store
Types
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