Latest Jarvis Cocker Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance. It's always been about trying to get to know people. Albeit, it's a bit of a contradiction because you can't really get to know people when they're 10 feet away and there's a big mass of them.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Distance, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't think people should abuse the fact that they are in showbiz. You still have to be human. I think that's the point. Showbiz is about showing human things - just amplified, that's all. And when it gets too much into, "Hey, we're part of the showbiz club and we can do what we want," it turns me off and I hate it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Melody

  Source: thequietus.com

• You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Kind, Environment

  Source: thequietus.com

• I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Real, Mean, Kids

  Source: thequietus.com

• A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Serious, Rhyme

  Source: thequietus.com

• You know when you're thinking about what you want to be when you grow up, or how you want your life to pan out. I couldn't imagine anything better than living in a hotel so you'd never have to worry about washing up, making the bed, anything like that, and having a servant to come in and play all your favourite TV programmes.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Growing Up, Thinking, Worry

  Source: thequietus.com

• You try and imagine what it must have been like to first see something moving on a screen. It must have blown your mind, because up to then life went by and there was no way to capture it. You could only get one instant and you didn't get the movement. So it's like having a bit of control over time really, because it's happening in real time or what seems to be real time, and then you can play it backwards and you can watch things again and again.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Real, Moving, Mind

  Source: thequietus.com

• Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Lying, Seductive

  Source: thequietus.com

• France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Dictatorship

  Source: thequietus.com

• Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but you can't quite get it together with her.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Beautiful, Nice, Together

  Source: thequietus.com

• I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Museums, Houston, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Differences, Links, Detours

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Light, Kind

  Interview with Wes Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

• 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.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Sex, Distance

  Interview with Wes Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

• I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Believe, People, Internet

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

• What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: "Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?"

  Jarvis Cocker

  Moving, People, Junk

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

• I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Book, Information, Way

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

• If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"

  Jarvis Cocker

  Creativity, Voice, Creative

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

• Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Ideas, Listening, Consumption

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

• My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Class, Interesting

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

• One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.

  Jarvis Cocker

  World, Way, Problem

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

• The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Years, Giving, Work Out

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

• I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Creativity, Care, Backgrounds

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.