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Jarvis Cocker is a British musician born in September 1963. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the band Pulp, whose music style blends rock, pop, and indie elements. Cocker is recognized for his distinctive voice and sense of humor, making him a significant figure in the British music scene.

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“I love your body 'cause I've lost my mind If you want someone to talk to, you're wasting your time If you want someone to share your life, you need someone who's alive And if every relationship is a two-way street, I have been screwing in the back whilst you drive I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow I never said I was big, I never said that I was clever And if you're waiting to find what's going on in my mind, you could be waiting forever Forever and ever I can dance you to the end of the night 'cause I'm afraid of the dark I have to confess: I'm out of my depth You're going over my head and straight through my heart Some girls like to play it dirty, some girls want to be your mum Me, I disrespected you whilst we were waiting for the taxi to come My morality is shabby, my behaviour unacceptable No, I'm not looking for a relationship, just a willing receptacle I never said I was... I never said I was... I never said I was... I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow Oh, yeah. I never said I was big, I never said that I was clever And if you're waiting to find what's going on in my mind, you could be waiting forever Forever and ever”

Sex Honesty Lyrics Anti Intellectualism

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.”

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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'.”

People Persons Nice Drug Shells Really Nice Nice Person

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“I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.”

Kind Train Stations Backwards Expatriates Train Stations

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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.”

Way Facts Seems Tvs Entertainment Aids Lifestyle Contradiction Enhancement Downloading Music

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“Culture shouldn't be a pacifying thing. It shouldn't be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways, is quite disruptive - makes you think and question things, and actually sparks debate.”

Thinking Way Should Culture Accepting Debate Sparks Make You Think Disruptive

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“I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes down to, because it's such a dominant capitalist society, everything becomes a consumer product. And I don't think that's really appropriate to the creative arts, really.”

People Thinking Want Art Feelings Creative Products Involved Consumers Appropriate Capitalist Dominant Consuming Creative Art

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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.”

People Kind Helping Age Stuff Bits Curious Obsessed

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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?"”

Thinking Want Wells Stuff Party Funny Things Spears

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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.”

People Thinking Together Life Is Bits Interesting Theory Okay Clique

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“I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.”

Hard Reason Character Bits Sluggish

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

Writing Interesting Class Middle Middle Class Middle Class Life

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“Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.”

Thinking Knows Bits Personality Disorder Symptoms Screwed Up

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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.”

People Ifs Ends Moral Speech Boring Drunk Not Interested Freedom Of Speech Public Life Standpoint Tabloids Invoke Faux Shagging

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“I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn't help but wonder why. Didn't they realise how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I'm one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don't apply to me.”

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“The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?”

People Good Things

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“[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.”

Today Lyricists

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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.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Persons Self Sometimes Earth Creative Nice Band Pleasant Think Of You Down To Earth Creative Person Self Indulgent

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“The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.”

Ifs Giving Years Mind Opinion Work Out Best Things

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“I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.”

Care Creativity Backgrounds

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“My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same.”

Thinking Looks Interesting Class Position Dull Working Class Mobility Upper Class

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“One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.”

World Way Should Problem Modern One Way Traffic Pauses Modern World

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“Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.”

Humans Ideas Human Beings Behinds Listening Hopefully Consumers Meant To Be Within You Consumption

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“I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.”

Way Humans Book Ends Hard Found Lost One Thing Information Internet Human Knowledge Overabundance

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“If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"”

Ifs Persons Moments Wanted Voice Creativity Creative Mankind Products Internet Fit Creative Person

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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?"”

People Said Moving Asks Giants Junk

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“I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.”

People Believe Humans I Believe Internet Circumstances Unprecedented

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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.”

Ifs Kind Body Song Sex Air Stage Like You Ears Distance Having Sex

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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.”

Wells Kind Light Song Stage Manage

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“I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.”

Feels I Can Particular Museums Houston

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“It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.”

Stuff Differences Particular Strange Like You Links Precise Selective Detours

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

People Nice Nice People

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“I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.”

People I Can Play My Own

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“You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.”

People Can Do Dumb

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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.”

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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.”

Together Beautiful Nice Not Interested Beautiful Women Very Nice

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“Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.”

Lying Seductive

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“You try and imagine what it must have been like to first see something moving on a screen. It must have blown your mind, because up to then life went by and there was no way to capture it. You could only get one instant and you didn't get the movement. So it's like having a bit of control over time really, because it's happening in real time or what seems to be real time, and then you can play it backwards and you can watch things again and again.”

Trying Mind Real Moving Imagine Instant Being Real Backwards

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

Song Serious Rhyme

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“You know when you're thinking about what you want to be when you grow up, or how you want your life to pan out. I couldn't imagine anything better than living in a hotel so you'd never have to worry about washing up, making the bed, anything like that, and having a servant to come in and play all your favourite TV programmes.”

Thinking Worry Growing Up Imagine Servant Hotel Favourite

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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.”

Kind Environment

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“I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.”

People Kind Mean Real Kids Idiot Crap

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“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.”

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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. It's always been about trying to get to know people. Albeit, it's a bit of a contradiction because you can't really get to know people when they're 10 feet away and there's a big mass of them.”

People Trying Feelings Distance Contradiction Shyness

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“I don't think people should abuse the fact that they are in showbiz. You still have to be human. I think that's the point. Showbiz is about showing human things - just amplified, that's all. And when it gets too much into, "Hey, we're part of the showbiz club and we can do what we want," it turns me off and I hate it.”

People Thinking Hate Abuse I Hate Showbiz

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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.”

People Thinking Art Purpose Art Is

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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.”

Knows Kind Song Sadness Sentimental Manipulative

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“Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.”

Thinking Needs Sexy

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

Believe Afterlife Banking

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

People Way Trying Use Language Interesting Appreciate Interesting Ways Appreciate People

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About the Author

Born: September 19, 1963
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 100

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