#kin

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#became #being #chronically #control #could

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. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#approach #around #attention #capture #choose

I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#always #australia #because #become #dj

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. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#been #class #consuming #created #into

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#grooving #i #i love #love #love songs

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#crowds #element #feeling #get #getting

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#birth #day #death #hurrying #me

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#day #death #every #every day #glass

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#artist #asking #discuss #his #horticulture

I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#became #biography #circle #closed #could