James Bay Quotes

I expect to make a career out of country music.

It's such a big dream of mine to be singing in front of my friends and family in my hometown.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

I wanted to be a comedian.

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

I've always known I was going to perform and live in London.

There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.

I always wanted to be a comedian.

Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.

I just want to play music with a band, live.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.