Jarvis Cocker Quotes

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point of view and are very passionate.

I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

Strong and in control - I don't necessarily feel that way. I'm a little bit more scattered in my life. I'm more of a street girl, in a way.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

Where's your will to be weird?

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.