Jarvis Cocker Quotes
If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.