Boring Quote by Jarvis Cocker

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

— Sarah McLachlan

I want nice songs. I don't want to worry about where I have to place songs on a playlist. I'm looking to make genuine,…

— Rex Orange County

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song…

— Otis Redding

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may…

— Richard Dawkins

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place…

— Etgar Keret

I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I…

— Marilyn Manson

“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery,…

— Molière

It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things…

— Stefan Zweig

For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old…

— Herman Melville

“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones…

— Molière

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless…

— Novalis

I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story…

— Charlie Brooker