Jarvis Cocker Quotes
My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.
Quotes to Explore
-
I aspire only to silence.
-
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
-
To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
-
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
-
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
-
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
-
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
-
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
-
I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
-
I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
-
I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
-
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
-
I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
-
I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
-
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-
As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
-
I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
-
My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
-
The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
-
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
-
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: 'Paint me just as I am.' Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
-
All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.
-
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
-
My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.
