167 Quotes by Jarvis Cocker

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    Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

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    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, Internet is pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"

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    People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.

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    I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

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    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.

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    I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

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    I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when I was in school. Cords, sensible shoes and glasses. I never liked geography much as a subject though. In fact the only geography teacher I can remember from school was a woman who had a moustache.

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    I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.

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    The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

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