Potent Quotables: Jarvis Cocker's Songwriting Tip
- Posted on Aug 7th 2009 1:00PM by Adam Horne
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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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Black Sunshineat 8-07-2009
Why am I reading this and wonder what Michael Jackson would say?
coleat 8-14-2009
Gah!!! Enough of the MJ-Jarvis association. It's 13 years late my friend.