American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
BILL BAILEYContentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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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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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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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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At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time.
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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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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’m English, and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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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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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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I’m a vegetarian, I’m not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they’re nearly fish aren’t they.
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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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