“(Quoting his three year old son on a James Blunt song) "Daddy, turn it off, it's spoiling my brain"”

—  Bill Bailey

Tinselworm (2008)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "(Quoting his three year old son on a James Blunt song) "Daddy, turn it off, it's spoiling my brain"" by Bill Bailey?
Bill Bailey photo
Bill Bailey 93
English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter a… 1965

Related quotes

Elagabalus photo

“He undertook to disparage my age when he himself had appointed his ten-year-old son.”

Elagabalus (203–222) Roman Emperor

Referring to the Emperor Macrinus and his declaration of his son Diadumenianus to be '"Caesar". The head of Diadumenianus was presented to Elagabalus as a trophy. As quoted in Dio's Roman History (1955), as translated by Earnest Cary, p. 439

Guillaume de Machaut photo

“He who makes songs without feeling
Spoils both his words and his music.”

Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377) French poet and composer

Qui de sentement ne fait,
Son dit et son chant contrefait.
"Remede de Fortune", line 407; translation from Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols (eds.) Composers on Music (Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1997) p. 5.

Pete Seeger photo

“In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. … A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. … A hymn is a controversial song — sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out. …”

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer

Pop Chronicles, Show 33 - Revolt of the Fat Angel: American musicians respond to the British invaders. Part 1 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19792/m1/, interview recorded 2.14.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.

Glen Cook photo

“If I had my druthers I’d be twenty-three years old for the rest of my life. Which would last another three thousand years.”

Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 2, “An Abode of Ravens: When the Baobhas Sang” (p. 367)

Tanith Lee photo

“What a son I’ve made. The midwives must have turned me in my labor so that I lay on your brain and crushed it.”

Book 5, “The Serpent Wakes” Chapter 21 (p. 286)
The Storm Lord (1976)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo
John Dingell photo

“My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first."”

John Dingell (1926–2019) American politician

PBS Online NewsHour, August 18, 2003. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec03/grid_8-18.html

Cat Stevens photo
Dylan Moran photo
Epifanio de los Santos photo

“At the end of three years my knowledge of Spanish and of literature in general was far beyond that of my friends. It was then my turn to laugh!”

Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician

As quoted in “Don Pañong – Genius" by A.V.H. Hartendorp in Philippine Magazine (September 1929), p. 211.
ULOL
Context: When I left the University of Santo Tomas, I had but a smattering of Spanish. My friends made sport of me. What keen mortification did I suffer at my ignorance! One day, no longer able to stand the jeerings of my friends, I made up my mind to learn Spanish. I purchased a dozen good novels and began to read. I did not spend hours over a grammar, but just kept on reading, taking care to remember the idioms. In the meantime my library grew. At the end of three years my knowledge of Spanish and of literature in general was far beyond that of my friends. It was then my turn to laugh!

Related topics