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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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
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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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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
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About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
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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.
