Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
BILL BAILEYMy wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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I think we’ve missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro… to catch whatever it is that’s forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it’s a bit of a long shot.
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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that’s undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
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I tend to go through periods worrying, “Where am I going, I can’t see a way out of this,” and it becomes quite stressful. But sometimes you have to take a bet on yourself.
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A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the long face?”. The horse replies: “I’m deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law.”
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