Jarvis Cocker Quotes

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• Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.
• I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
• I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.
• I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they…
• Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
• I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's…
• Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is…
• I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks…
• The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually.…
• A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.
• But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.
• Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.
• For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.
• I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
• I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
• I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.
• I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.
• 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…
• In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.
• It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

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