Quotes by Jay Kay - Page 1

I am a bit old-school.
Jay Kay / Musician
Old School
Bits
School
I Am Am
Bit
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I am quite fussy about clothes.
Jay Kay / Musician
Clothes
Fussy
I Am About Am
Quite
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I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.
Jay Kay / Musician
Note
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Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.
Jay Kay / Musician
Awards
Gears
Top Gear
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In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.
Jay Kay / Musician
Feet
Mind
Time Mind Your
Foot
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The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?
Jay Kay / Musician
Men
Lasts
Want
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I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.
Jay Kay / Musician
Aston Martin
Hats
May
Hat
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How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?
Jay Kay / Musician
Economy
People
Tanks
Afford
Fill
Recover
Supposed
Tank
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Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.
Jay Kay / Musician
British
Country
Proud
Nowhere
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Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.
Jay Kay / Musician
Guy
Kind
Needs
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Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.
Jay Kay / Musician
Life Is
Private Life
Way
Private
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Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.
Jay Kay / Musician
Impatient
Planets
Waiting
Best Always Person
Wait
However
Planet
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I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.
Jay Kay / Musician
Knees
Littles
Stage
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The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
Jay Kay / Musician
Crisis
Mid Life Crisis
Times Of Crisis
Younger
Mid-Life
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I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.
Jay Kay / Musician
Car
Bmw
Waiting
Restore
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I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.
Jay Kay / Musician
Feet
Kicking
Mum
Two
Me Feet Stand
Thank
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I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.
Jay Kay / Musician
Artist
Careers
Lucky
Radio
Apart
Artists
Consider
Indeed
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I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.
Jay Kay / Musician
Rocks
Stars
Thinking
Stars Me People
Me People Person
Ladies
Rock Stars
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I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room.
Jay Kay / Musician
Home
Buzz
Rooms
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I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
Jay Kay / Musician
Art
Car
Government
British
British Government
Joy
Tax
Collection
Gonna
Taxing
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I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.
Jay Kay / Musician
Hours
Miles
People
Pursue
Quite
Equivalent
Happily
People Down I Can
Helicopter
Hour
Per
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There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.
Jay Kay / Musician
Classic
Good Look Style
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When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.
Jay Kay / Musician
Disco
People
Plagiarism
Radio
Track
Row
Samples
Tracks
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All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!
Jay Kay / Musician
Garage
Odd
Good Music
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I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room. It never quite loses its thing.
Jay Kay / Musician
Buzz
Dare
Hotel
Loses
Rooms
Love Home New
Dressing
Hotel Room
Stages
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I think it is easy for people to build up an image of what I'm about. I consider myself quite a nice chappy really. I'm decent to people, I stay in and listen to Radio 4.
Jay Kay / Musician
Nice
People
Thinking
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I don't watch myself on TV, I don't read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, 'What about that story last week?' I go, 'I didn't even know there was.'
Jay Kay / Musician
News
People
Watches
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I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.
Jay Kay / Musician
Crap
Feels
Thinking
World
Young Generation
Younger Generation
Younger
Backside
World Your Something
Generation
Owes
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I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.
Jay Kay / Musician
Girl
Boots
Countryside
Dog
Embrace
Walking
Wet
Wind
Bend
Dogs
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I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.
Jay Kay / Musician
Donkey
Session
Round
Helps
Musicians
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We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.
Jay Kay / Musician
Dynamite
Pool
Singers
Month
Arranger
Backing
Gave
La
Musicians
Spent
String
Tracks
Wright
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I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They're all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.
Jay Kay / Musician
Bottom
Crazy
Cutting
Doe
Sun
Trousers
Nobody
Boot
Cut
Drives
Jacket
Leg
Tight
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It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.
Jay Kay / Musician
Faceless
Likes
Motor
Enjoying
Motor Car
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From 16 to 21 when I was self sufficient and working in factories. I packed batteries, boxes, and make-up with heroin addicts. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet.
Jay Kay / Musician
Feet
Self
Two
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I wanted to use a totally different part of my brain. It's quite scary at times. I went for learning to fly because it was most difficult of all. The insurance man just sat there and licked his lips when I told him.
Jay Kay / Musician
Men
Brain
Scary
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There's nothing classic about what's around now. I am a bit old-school. There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.
Jay Kay / Musician
Classic
Fashion
Made
Now
Around
Bit
Days
Good Look I Am
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Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.
Jay Kay / Musician
Being There
Bother
Understanding
Work Me Long
Work Start Me
Aiming
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Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, 'Hi I'm Candy,' and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That's a difficult job.
Jay Kay / Musician
Be Prepared
Candy
Prepared
Difficult Job
Hi
Ignore
Understands
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This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, .. I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.
Jay Kay / Musician
Art
Opportunity
Competition
Giving
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I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!
Jay Kay / Musician
Cornwall
Flying
Isle
Moon
Mountain
Wales
Weather
Years
Flights
Licence
Local
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My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.
Jay Kay / Musician
Guitar
Scotland
Song
Nowhere
Drum
Hammer
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I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.
Jay Kay / Musician
Travel
Might
Moving
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I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?
Jay Kay / Musician
Home
Acres
Beautiful
Countryside
Garden
Gorgeous
Trout
Yards
Exactly
Hut
Organic
River
Vegetable
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Well, there's lots of different things going on at the moment, I'm in talks with some people from Japan to do something and I'm also talking to Hugo Boss to do a very small line, which I want to keep to just 10-12 pieces, but what I want to do is sit with the designers for a couple of days bashing some stuff out.
Jay Kay / Musician
Couple
Japan
Talking
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