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.

Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Cocker Pulp

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Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

Gail Sheehy
- Feeling
- Light
- Door
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