Potent Quotables: Jarvis Cocker's Songwriting Tip

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    "If you sat there and thought, 'This song is gonna save some people's lives,' I can guarantee you'd write a real pile of s---." --Jarvis Cocker

    In a recent interview, the former Pulp frontman warns against self-conscious greatness. "When somebody sets himself up as a kind of messiah," he adds, "it fundamentally goes against the spirit of what art is about."

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