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Creativity Quote by Davy Jones

"I've got a farm in England where I breed horses"

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Name-dropping a farm in England is a classic celebrity move: casual, specific, and just eccentric enough to sound like proof of a real private life. Coming from Davy Jones, it reads less like bragging and more like a controlled reveal of adulthood, stability, and old-world legitimacy - a pivot away from the manic, packaged image that followed him as a pop commodity.

The line’s power is in its plainness. No punchline, no exclamation, no lyrical flourish. It lands with the understated confidence of someone who knows the audience expects glitter and gets hay instead. That contrast does cultural work: it humanizes him while also signaling class aspiration. “A farm in England” isn’t any farm; it’s England as shorthand for heritage, tradition, and a certain social polish. Breeding horses isn’t just a hobby, either. It implies patience, money, expertise, and legacy - the slow craft of shaping bloodlines, the opposite of the fast churn of pop fame.

There’s also a subtle reclamation of control. Musicians in Jones’s era were often treated like products; this sentence asserts ownership in the most literal way: land, animals, a long-term project that doesn’t require applause. Under the surface, it’s a statement about time. Pop stardom is seasonal; farms and horses suggest continuity. He’s telling you: I’m not just what you saw on TV. I have a life that outlasts the tour.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Jones, Davy. (2026, January 15). I've got a farm in England where I breed horses. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-got-a-farm-in-england-where-i-breed-horses-145183/

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Jones, Davy. "I've got a farm in England where I breed horses." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-got-a-farm-in-england-where-i-breed-horses-145183/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've got a farm in England where I breed horses." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-got-a-farm-in-england-where-i-breed-horses-145183/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Davy Jones

Davy Jones (born December 30, 1945) is a Musician from United Kingdom.

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