Jarvis Cocker Quotes

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

Jarvis Cocker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 19, 1963

Topics

MusicMindYouWrongLivingOut

Airbnb was born out of necessarity. Our rent went up. It was born out of a problem.

Joe Gebbia

ProblemBornRentOutUpAirbnb

Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost.

Andres Iniesta

SmallFeelLearnLostProtect

You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before.

Michael Bastian

Social MediaMediaYouPossibleReal

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Amos Oz

ParentsValuesMoreSomethingScale

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Sparky Anderson

FutureLivePastPeoplePresent

People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.

Stewart Butterfield

PeopleYearEarlyForgetSometimes

Actually, when I was young, I believe I met Nicolas Cage. I think I was probably eight, and I remember seeing him at somebody's house - it was an event and he happened to be there. People would ask me if I was his son, because I looked like him at that point, so I do remember feeling some connection and just wanting to say, like, 'Papa!'

Simon Helberg

SonPeopleMeBelieveThinkSeeing

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

Robert Cailliau

EconomicsPayContentDecideWeb

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Joseph Conrad

SeaModernHighwayMakeShipsMuch

Have I ever abused a woman? Never.

Columbus Short

WomanNeverEver

I respect everybody.

Claudio Ranieri

RespectEverybody

One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were formerly middle-class.

Alissa Quart

SupportFinancialDoingHardship

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