#so

The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#always #being #better #boring #come

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#fairly #function #good #good song #great

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.' ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#away #drift #enough #far #gradually

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #does #even #everything #express

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#focus #get #me #moving #really

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#good #good reason #hits #i #i do

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#colorado #get #i #i can #just

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#feelings #good #good music #motivated #mysterious

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched. ↗

— Patch Adams

#caterpillars #sad #sadness #sorrow #beauty

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#else #mind #quality #someone #taste