Jarvis Cocker Quotes - Page 3

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• But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Notebook, Ideas, Littles

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• Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Sex, Reality, Doe

  "The Big Issue" Magazine, 2006.

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• I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

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  Girl, Thinking, Trying

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• I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when I was in school. Cords, sensible shoes and glasses. I never liked geography much as a subject though. In fact the only geography teacher I can remember from school was a woman who had a moustache.

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  Teacher, School, Glasses

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• I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

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  People, Guy, Lovely

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• In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

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  Government, Way, Conservative

  "Jarvis Cocker: I'm no Tory boy" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2009.

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• We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.

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  People, Age, Stuff

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

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  Thinking, Play, Three

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• There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more channels on TV, and yet at the same time, in some ways it doesn't seem to be as vital as it once was. It seems to be just another entertainment option or lifestyle enhancement aid or something.

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  Way, Enhancement, Facts

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Song, Fall, Writing

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• Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

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  Past, Long, Age

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

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• Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Drunk, Freedom Of Speech

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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• There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

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  Writing, Class, Interesting

  "Nothing left to write home about". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 1999.

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• It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

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  Party, Years, Two

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• 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.

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  Song, Communication, Chocolate

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

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• 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.

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  Song, Kids, Player

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

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• If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

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  Mind, Expecting, Get Involved

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

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• I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

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  Consistent, Ifs

  "You can snort as much cocaine as you want and have as many beautiful women as you want ... but it doesn't make you happy" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2008.

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• For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

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  Hands, Awkward, Insane

  "Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Nervous

  "Jarvis Cocker: 'Music has changed. It's not as central, it's more like a scented candle'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2011.

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• I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

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  Book, Together, Proud

  "Pulp's Jarvis Cocker Appointed Editor-at-large at Faber & Faber". www.digitalspy.com. October 13, 2011.

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• France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Dictatorship

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit limiting. You can always learn things from other people. This is my theory.

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  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.

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  Nice, People, Nice People

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• Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but you can't quite get it together with her.

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  Beautiful, Nice, Together

  Source: thequietus.com

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