Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying ‘Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.’
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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My 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.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you’ve got to admire the workmanship.
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I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we’re still alive, before we die.
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What I’d like to do now – well, what I’d like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.
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The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don’t have these.
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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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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I once punched a bloke in the face for saying ‘Hawk the Slayer’ was rubbish, when what I should have said ‘Dad, you’re wrong.’
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I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think ‘Oh my God, I’m James Blunt, what have I done?’
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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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