Jarvis Cocker Quotes
You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'
Quotes to Explore
-
How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
-
I feel like we all have our skeletons.
-
I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
-
Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
-
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
-
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
-
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
-
Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
-
In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
-
We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
-
I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
-
Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
-
Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
-
I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
-
As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
-
I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
-
When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
-
I'm always in the market for my acting.
-
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
-
Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
-
Of course it's tough to reach the number one place and also winning grand slams.
-
I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.
-
You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'
