Quotes by Jarvis Cocker

About Jarvis Cocker:

Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician, singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor, radio presenter, and music video director. He is known for being the frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus, Cocker has led a successful solo career, and presents a BBC Radio 6 Music show called Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service.
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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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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

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My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.

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

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Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

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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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Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

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The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

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We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

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I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

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Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

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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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I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do...

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

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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 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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I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

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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 ...

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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 part...

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Author Bio

  • NameJarvis Cocker
  • DescriptionEnglish musician, singer-songwriter, radio presenter and editor
  • AliasesJarvis Branson Cocker
  • BornSeptember 19, 1963
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionMusician; Singer-songwriter; Guitarist