Jarvis Cocker Quotes

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.

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• When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Song
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Action

• I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Song
  • New

• There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Black
  • Light
  • Darkness

• I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Fast

• Each one prays to God according to his own light.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Light

• Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Power
  • Song

• If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Song
  • Rock
  • Now

• Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  

  Vanity
  • Light

• A candle is enough to light the world. It makes it clear. Even at noon It glistens in essential dark. At night, it lights the fruit and wine, The book and bread, things as they are...

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Book
  • Night

• I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Work
  • Light

• In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Song
  • Garden

• I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Song
  • Mood

• When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

  

  Luke Combs
  • Up
  • Song

• I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Light

• You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Song

• I actually admire the Indian artiste 'Lost Stories.' He made a remix of my song 'Faded.' That is really good and cool because it actually represented Indian music. I just loved the song; it so unique.

  

  Alan Walker
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Writing
  • Song

• But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Dark

• You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying ships, of real-time genetic mutation. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Time
  • Real
  • Flying

• 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 Pulp
  • Song
  • Light
  • Recorded