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I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

Jarvis Cocker

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Jarvis Cocker
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 19
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Sheffield
England
Jarvis Branson Cocker
Perform
Anyway
Nervous
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Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.
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Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.
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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.
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You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.
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Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.
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If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.
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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.
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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.
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I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.
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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 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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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.
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