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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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“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'.”

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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.”

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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.”

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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.”

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

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

People Persons Nice

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“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.”

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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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“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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“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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“As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.”

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“Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.”

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About the Author

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

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