Jarvis Cocker Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Strange, Week

  "Pulp" by Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2001.

• The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Sadness, Sentimental

  "Paris match" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2007.

• I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Communication, Chocolate

  Interview with Elizabeth Peyton, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

• The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Nice, Thinking

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

• Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Senior, Song, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Kids, Player

  "The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review" by Jarvis Cocker, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

• If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Sex, Distance

  Interview with Wes Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

• In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Light, Kind

  Interview with Wes Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

• I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Writing, Political

  Interview with Elizabeth Peyton, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

• A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Serious, Rhyme

  Source: thequietus.com

• There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Fall, Writing

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