Words matter. These are the best Jimmy Somerville Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I’m a Londoner.
I’ve always been making music, but I sort of went under the radar. I kind of disappeared… I was never really that comfortable with the music industry. I loved the idea of being able to express myself creatively – but the rest of it never really sat well with me.
It has to start from the playground and parents teaching kids that diversity is what makes us so wonderful.
I slowly became less famous and less successful. That was very difficult.
I believe now that love is letting people in. Love is bigger than all of us.
I definitely didn’t have a happy childhood.
So many people have to struggle for years, very few bands get success with their first record, but I was instantly successful and famous on a very large scale, which was scary.
Glasgow is a city, but it’s one with a small-town mentality.
I’ve always relied on a big producer and big studios. I had budgets that were ridiculous.
People like Duran Duran were a big production but it was a nothingness. That’s just my personal opinion.
I’ve never liked bosses telling me what to do.
When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content – about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression.
For someone who doesn’t live there, when I go back to Scotland it’s very weird for me.
Actually, it doesn’t matter to the papers why you left Glasgow. They never look at the roots of the problems you had, and you simply end up being painted as un-nationalistic.
Actually, have you ever heard Sylvester’s live version of ‘Mighty Real’ that was recorded in San Francisco? If I listen to that, I never fail to get goose bumps all over. I go crazy. That song just makes me so emotional.
