Quotes by James Bay - Page 1

As a little kid, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson.
James Bay /
Kids
Little Kid
Littles
Obsessed
Michael
Jackson
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It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter.
James Bay /
Labeled
Singer Songwriter
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I'm going to take each day and each thing and each gig as it comes at me.
James Bay /
Each Day
Gig
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I like it when things crescendo to a huge moment like 'Hold Back the River.'
James Bay /
River
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I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.
James Bay /
Bedroom
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And you don't have to care, so don't pretend. Nobody needs a best fake friend.
James Bay /
Fake
Fake Friends
Needs
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I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.
James Bay /
Defined
Career
Long Career
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When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.
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Delta
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I'm not waiting, but I'm willing if you called me up. If you ever wanna be in love, I'll come around
James Bay /
Ifs
Waiting
Willing
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It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.
James Bay /
Silly
Solo
Stadiums
Ed Sheeran
Fill
Solo Artist
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Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down.
James Bay /
Exhausted
Slow
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As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
James Bay /
Artist
Bedroom
Solo
Song
Writing
Singer Songwriter
Solo Artist
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How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.
James Bay /
Creating
Honest
Apart
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I used to dress up like Michael Jackson. I didn't have the glove, but I had a red jacket like in 'Thriller.'
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Red
Used
Michael
Glove
Jacket
Thriller
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I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.
James Bay /
Band
Electric
Electric Guitar
Guitar
Loud
Solo
Stuff
Acoustic
Plugging
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I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.
James Bay /
Kids
Music
Black
Catchy
Chorus
Little Kid
Littles
Peas
Pop Music
Loved
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The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.
James Bay /
River
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To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.
James Bay /
Manhattan
Streets
Record Deal
Sign
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My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.
James Bay /
Brilliant
Load
Painful
Songwriting
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I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, You should give it a go in London.
James Bay /
Night
Two
Years
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I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'
James Bay /
Brighton
Heard
London
People More Go
Open
Nights
Mic
More And More
Saying
Spent
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I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting.
James Bay /
Delicate
Intimate
Quiet
Shouting
Spotlight
Screaming
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Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.
James Bay /
Grounding
Small Town
Somewhere Else
Belong
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I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football.
James Bay /
Brother
Older Brother
Climb
Trees
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There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
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Artist
Audience
Fans
Mystique
Stage
Element
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I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It's a similar inspiration for me in terms of songwriting.
James Bay /
Catching
Drawing
Inspiration
Songwriting
Venues
Airport
Moment Me People
Similar
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I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.
James Bay /
Antenna
Personal Experiences
Me Keep People
Me People Things
Lookout
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Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.
James Bay /
Drawing
Love Art Good
Developed
Minute
Natural Thing
Similar
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I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.
James Bay /
Attention
Brilliant
Computer
Desperate
Hours
Lessons
Bought
Proper
Span
Spent
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When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.
James Bay /
Pushing
Park
Supermarket
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Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.
James Bay /
Comfortable
Great Ones
Motown
Records
Springsteen
Stones
Introduced
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There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'
James Bay /
Heard
Dad Guitar Me
Grabbed
Wait
Learnt
Owned
Sold
Tune
Uncle
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My family quite innocently don't understand the ins and outs of it all, but they see things like the Burberry show and the Live Lounge, so they understand the gravity of those things, but they're proud - it's cool.
James Bay /
Gravity
Innocently
Lounge
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The Internet is the Wild West of the world, where anybody can throw anything down. Everything can be as relevant as the next thing; it doesn't matter who posts it. In that environment, the Critics' Choice is still very important.
James Bay /
Critics
Posts
Relevant
Wild West
World Internet Important
Wild
Next Thing
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When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody - somebody close to me. It's often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.
James Bay /
Amplify
Closest
Conversation
Thoughts Mind Me
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My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.
James Bay /
Smashing
Songwriting
Time Music Together
Complex
Explain
Loads
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Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, 'The guitarist is sick and couldn't make it... does anybody know how to play all the songs?' That was always my little dream. It was a massively inspiring thing to be in a space with live shows.
James Bay /
Inspiring
Guitarist
Sick
Dream It
Hoping
Live Shows
Massively
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Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a melody. All of that influences me. I also try to be a fictional writer, and sometimes I get close, but the things that resonate the most with me - and with everyone else - is what's real.
James Bay /
Melody
Productions
Springsteen
Always Me Song
Scale
Me Song Sometimes
Michael
Everyone Else
Fictional
Me Song Always
Influences
Jackson
Resonate
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