Jarvis Cocker Quotes

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Jarvis Cocker

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1963

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

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When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

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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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The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio.

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I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

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It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

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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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The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

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I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

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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.

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You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'

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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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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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You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

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Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

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I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want to try and look OK for the benefit of other people.

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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

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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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The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

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I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

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