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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#french #french revolution #i #i think #instance

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music. ↗

— Neil Finn

#difficult #element #i #i can #into

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

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

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 love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#after #all day #any #aware #beatles

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

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. ↗

— Stephen King

#busy #closely #coming #good #good story

The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#attention #else #feel #full #give

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#any #because #been #come #company