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I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#alone #bands #better #body #did

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#ever #i #nobody #other #people

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

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Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#background #because #bit #brain #content

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

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

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Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#anything #discuss #every #fact #found

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time. ↗

— Jack Vance

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Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#because #called #covers #got #had

I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#always #am #dimension #edges #human