Jarvis Cocker Quotes
If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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Sex is a discovery.
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Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
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Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.
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I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.
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People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
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I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
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We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
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If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.
