Quotes by Jimmy Somerville - Page 1

I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Happy Childhood
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I've never liked bosses telling me what to do.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Bosses
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Glasgow is a city, but it's one with a small-town mentality.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Glasgow
Mentality
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I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Scottish
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I slowly became less famous and less successful. That was very difficult.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Slowly
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There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Balls
Glitter
Massive
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I believe now that love is letting people in. Love is bigger than all of us.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Bigger
Love Is
Love Believe Love Is
Love Believe People
Love Love Is Believe
Letting
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For someone who doesn't live there, when I go back to Scotland it's very weird for me.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Scotland
Me Weird Live
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I've always relied on a big producer and big studios. I had budgets that were ridiculous.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Studios
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I discovered later in life that there's not that many men with a counter-tenor vocal ability.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Ability
Vocal
Discovered
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People like Duran Duran were a big production but it was a nothingness. That's just my personal opinion.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Nothingness
Duran
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It has to start from the playground and parents teaching kids that diversity is what makes us so wonderful.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Teaching
Wonderful
Parents
Playground
Start
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I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Terrified
Love Time Me
Love Me
Painfully
Same Time
To Love
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Actually, it doesn't matter to the papers why you left Glasgow. They never look at the roots of the problems you had, and you simply end up being painted as un-nationalistic.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Glasgow
Roots
Painted
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I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families around were just laws unto themselves, it was really tribal.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Standards
Brought
Morals
Tribal
Unto
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So many people have to struggle for years, very few bands get success with their first record, but I was instantly successful and famous on a very large scale, which was scary.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Scale
Instantly
So Many People
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When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content - about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Disco
Lyrical
Progressive
Positive Love Change
Possibilities
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The first record I ever danced to in a grown-up disco was Donna Summer's 'A Love Trilogy'. I danced for the full 15 minutes and I thought to myself, 'This is it, this is what it's all about.'
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Disco
Danced
Grown-Up
Trilogy
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I think there's a lot of honesty in that track. 'Smalltown Boy' was about leaving Glasgow but it was also about the people I had come to meet on my journey, especially when I was squatting in London.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Journey
Glasgow
Honesty
Leaving
London
My Journey
Track
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Actually, have you ever heard Sylvester's live version of 'Mighty Real' that was recorded in San Francisco? If I listen to that, I never fail to get goose bumps all over. I go crazy. That song just makes me so emotional.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Bumps
Heard
San Francisco
Version
Fail
Francisco
Goose
Mighty
San
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I've always been making music, but I sort of went under the radar. I kind of disappeared... I was never really that comfortable with the music industry. I loved the idea of being able to express myself creatively - but the rest of it never really sat well with me.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Music Industry
Radar
Music Myself Me
Music Myself Always
Creatively
Disappeared
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I went to squat with a bunch of friends - creative, intelligent, political people. We got involved in a community project funded by the Arts Council and we made this video. I sang a poem and somebody, I think it was Richard Coles, who was later my partner in the Communards, said I had a very strange sound and I should use it.
Jimmy Somerville / Singer
Bunch
Council
Creative
Intelligent
Involved
Sound
Squat
Strange
Video
Arts
Project
Richard
Sang
Partner
Poem
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