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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
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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.
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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.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
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If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
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Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
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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...
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The song is the center; the song is the key. If you don't have a good song you don't have anything by my value.
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I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.
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In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.
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I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.
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There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?
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I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do.
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If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.
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I ride really bad when I overthink things.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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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.
