Jarvis Cocker Quotes

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You'll never live like common people,
you'll never do what common people do,
you'll never fail like common people,
you'll never watch your life slide out of view
and dance and drink and screw
because there's nothing else to do.

Jarvis Cocker
I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn't help but wonder why. Didn't they realize how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I'm one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don't apply to me.

Jarvis Cocker
Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

Jarvis Cocker
There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

Jarvis Cocker
The hangover is over
Men are over
Women are over
Cholesterol is over
Tapers are over
Irony is over
Bye bye bye bye.

Jarvis Cocker
They usually ask you, 'Are you you?'…In fact, I've even been thinking of printing up some cards that just say, 'Yes, I am,' so I can get one out before they even say anything.
On signing autographs

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

Jarvis Cocker
Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

Jarvis Cocker
Is this the way they say the future's meant to feel? Or just 20,000 people standing in a field. And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is. But that's okay 'cos we're all sorted out for E's and wizz.

Jarvis Cocker