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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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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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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When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.
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You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.
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Nobody was better at moving between different groups of people than he was. But I also think this was an aspect of his personality that ended up being very damaging to him. He had three personas he was trying to juggle: he had his married-man persona, at home with the wife; the laddish side; and the cerebral, literary side.
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And every dew-drop paints a bow.
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The microprocessor is a miracle.
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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.
