Quotes by Jools Holland - Page 1

I love the Queen. I've had a crush on her since I was eight.
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Crush
Queen
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Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.
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Amy
Example
Thinking
Examples
Paul
Poets
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A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.
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Example
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Modern World
Phones
World
Good Example
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'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.
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Asylums
Gone
Television
Time First Time Television
Asylum
Lunatics
Tube
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Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.
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Disaster
Piano
Would Be
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Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.
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Disaster
Regard
Saved
Life Me My Life
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Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It's a powerful thing.
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Battle
Cry
Powerful
Lift
Powerful Thing
Soldiers
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I do so much travelling in my work that my suitcase is always packed, with my passport ready. I rarely unpack, as I am constantly on the move.
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Moving
Passports
Ready
Suitcases
Passport
Work I Am Always
Packed
Rarely
Suitcase
Travelling
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It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.
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Lennon
Studios
Would Be
Bach
Corner
Ideally
Smith
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Naggers always know what they are doing. They weigh up the risks, then they go on and on and on until they get what they want or until they get punched.
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Goes On
Risk
Want
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Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.
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Dues
Get Better
Hotel
Time Work Better
Prefer
Due
Hotels
Work Time Service
Smaller
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Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on.
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Yoga
Ears
Hands
Tricky
Wonderful
Acts
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I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including the Renaissance, which I am prepared to sound expert on.
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Including
Prepared
Range
Renaissance
Subjects
Good I Am Know
Few Things
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As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant and keep your judgments to yourself.
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Helping
People
Trying
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Early on with Squeeze, we played the Hope & Anchor with U2. Three people turned up. Then two left. Then the last person left. That's the least-attended show I've ever done.
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Anchor
Hope Done People
Squeeze
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As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself.
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Family Values
Humour
Family Yourself Your
Hang
Help People
Judgments
Pass
Tolerant
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There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.
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Always World Yourself
Barrier
Better Always World
Direction
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When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.
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Careless
Electricity
Oil
Sitting
Bill
Lamp
Turned
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Whenever I go on holiday, I like to time travel and imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago. I love the Tuscan landscape, which is reminiscent of a Claude Lorrain painting.
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Holiday
Landscape
Time Travel
Love Time Travel
Reminiscent
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I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.
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Kings
First Kiss
Kissing
Trying
Love Best Work
Capturing
Van
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I like to think of myself as Prince Charles's friend. He's a great fellow. There are always people trying to knock him, but The Prince's Trust is one of the biggest supporters of young people in Britain.
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Britain
Charles
Fellow
Supporters
Young People
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The one thing I've learnt is that you don't want to be nasty about anybody, unless they've dropped dead. And the annoying thing is that most of the people that I know who've dropped dead are really great.
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Annoying
Nasty
Dropped
Learnt
The One Thing
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My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.
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Band
Love Is
Reading
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I have friends who are in the posh category and some who are in the not-at-all-posh category, and some who you would find it very hard to get any sort of handle on. But I am lucky to have any friends, of course.
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Handle
Posh
Category
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I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and... just playing the blues!
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Home
Arranging
Headphones
Practice
Silent
Writing
Yamaha
Love Home Me
Blues
Ideal
Tour
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I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I'll do that.' She's all about courtesy.
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Queens
Couple
Courtesy
Delightful
Situation
Writing
Queen
In Fact
Met
Note
Yes
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I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.
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Architecture
Listening
Playing Music
Realised
Thinking
Traveller
Time Music Live
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I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I'm not one for sitting by a pool or lying on a beach. I also like to sketch while I'm on holiday, if I have time.
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Beach
Holiday
Lying
Museums
Pool
Ruins
Time Culture I Am
Local
Sketch
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The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time.
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Boogie
Britain
Eight
Post War
Time Music Mother
Louis
Blues
First Thing
Grandmothers
St. Louis
The First Thing
Uncle
Underground
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When I first set up my big band, I only had Gilson Lavis, the drummer from Squeeze, with me. He was the core element. Whenever a group hits the big time, they always get a new drummer because they really need that. You can make do with rubbish elsewhere.
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Core
Drummer
Rubbish
Time Always Me
Time Me New
Big Band
Big Time
Element
Squeeze
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If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.
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Chords
Fingers
Instruments
Members
Orchestra
Limited
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I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.
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Chords
Harmony
Theory
Time Work Music
Ear
Work Time Music
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At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.
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Coward
Me Parents Live
Breed
Maternal
Magical
Separated
Sing
Temporarily
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'The X Factor' seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it's not a new idea. The pre-Beatles pop world was full of manufactured pop stars. The thing is that you can't imagine any of the artists you look back at and admire ever going on 'The X Factor.'
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Admire
Pop Stars
Tears
Factor
New Idea
Personalities
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I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.
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Backgrounds
Extended Family
Horrible
Working Class
Family Me Grow
Extended
Folk
Grand
Grow Up
No Interest
Raise
Realise
Whereas
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The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back.
Jools Holland / Bandleader
Amazed
Delighted
Family Life
Working Class
Life Family Parents
Life Family Way
Apart
Associated
Classes
Disappeared
Sang
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It's very nice to be asked to anybody's wedding. Particularly if it's the Prince of Wales. I learned a lot from it, which was to end early and get away. I suppose one would have to look back historically and see who other royals had at their weddings. Were there people at Queen Elizabeth's wedding who were common like myself?
Jools Holland / Bandleader
Wedding
Wales
Elizabeth
Historically
Queen
Suppose
Royals
Weddings
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