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Potent Quotables: Jarvis Cocker's Songwriting Tip


"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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cole

Gah!!! Enough of the MJ-Jarvis association. It's 13 years late my friend.

August 14 2009 at 8:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Black Sunshine

Why am I reading this and wonder what Michael Jackson would say?

August 07 2009 at 10:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply