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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.
Jarvis Cocker
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Jarvis Cocker
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 19
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Sheffield
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Jarvis Branson Cocker
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I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.
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Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.
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You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.
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What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?
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Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.
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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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Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.
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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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There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?
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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.
Jarvis Cocker
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
Jarvis Cocker
Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.
Jarvis Cocker
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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You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.
Jarvis Cocker
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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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
I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.
Jarvis Cocker
I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.
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You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.
Jarvis Cocker
Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.
Jarvis Cocker
