Jamie Jones > Quotes

“Even if it was a song I didn’t particularly like, I needed to record it, listen to it and drink it in. I had caught the music bug.”
― Jamie Jones, I Blame Morrissey: My Adventures with Indie-Pop and Emotional Disaster

“Mum had other ideas though. How could she be aspirational middle class with our own car, hi-fi stereo with graphic equaliser and still have an outside toilet? The toilet door was soon locked, never to be opened again. My mum was a gigantic pile of confusing contradictions. She was desperate to join the middle classes but would also stand in our kitchen screeching along to Billy Bragg’s left wing political anthems with her distinctively awful singing voice.”
― Jamie Jones, I Blame Morrissey: My Adventures with Indie-Pop and Emotional Disaster

“I knew that from hereon in it was me and Billy against the world. He had given me a blueprint of how life should be lived, both politically and in affairs of the heart. I was primed to listen to anything and everything that he had to say. From that day onwards I told people that I was a socialist, but in reality I was a Braggist.”
― Jamie Jones, I Blame Morrissey: My Adventures with Indie-Pop and Emotional Disaster