Olly Murs Quotes

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

I always walk around with a few moves in my pocket. You never know when you may need to bust one out.

My playing is all about feel. I'm completely self taught: I never took any lessons or anything.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

If there was a wrong note, it didn't matter as long as it was rocking.

I can dance to just about anything.

I like to dance, I love music and sometimes in the changing room I am dancing.

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

You shouldn't think about technique when you play. You have to be you. It cannot be about, 'I can play this, and I can show you that.'

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

I just like to hop up on the dance floor and do my thing.

I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.