Jay Kay Quotes

• I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can’t tell artists apart.

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• I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They’re all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.

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• I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

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• I am quite fussy about clothes.

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• I am a bit old-school.

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• How is the economy supposed to recover when people can’t afford to fill the tank?

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• Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I’m quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

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• All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music… and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!

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• The mid-life crisis is just those times when you’re not so into the things you were when you were younger.

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  We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.

   

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• Toby not being there doesn’t bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they’ve got an understanding of what I want and what I’m aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

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• My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you’ve just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you’re on your way.

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• I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don’t find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey’s years.

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Jay Kay (33)

Birth:	30th December, 1969
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Singer

About

Jay Kay was born in Stretford, Greater Manchester, England. He is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the acid jazz band Jamiroquai. Jamiroquai has sold over thirty million albums, and has spent a collective 162 weeks on the UK singles chart between 1992 and 2006, with Kay's personal wealth said to be around £40 million. The band's albums list shown below: Emergency on Planet Earth, The Return of the Space Cowboy, Travelling Without Moving, Synkronized, JAZZiroquai, A Funk Odyssey, Live in Verona, Dynamite, and Rock Dust Light Star. The band's songs list shown below: "Blow Your Mind", "When You Gonna Learn", "Space Cowboy", "Stillness in Time", "Cosmic Girl", "Alright", "King for a Day", "Little L", "Love Foolosophy", "Time Won't Wait", "White Knuckle Ride", and "Blue Skies".

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