Top 100 Jarvis Quotes
#1. People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.
Charles Hazlewood
#2. I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing.
~ Michelle Jarvis
Gregg Olsen
#3. Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.
Joe Dempsie
#4. For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.
Jason Calacanis
#5. Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not.
John Leeson
#6. The "No bullshit" version of who you are can work with a compass. Your ego needs a map because it does not quite understand the wise words of Paul Jarvis, "Nobody is successful because they took somebody else's roadmap and copied it.
Srinivas Rao
#7. Silvia told Jarvis how she had walked in on her baby daddy having sex with their young babysitter and she had beaten him in the back with a hammer, paralyzing him.
Aleta L. Williams
#9. The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#10. I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow
Jeff Jarvis
#11. Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#12. We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#13. TV on the internet can now be freed from the need to fill a clock. It can expand past video.
Jeff Jarvis
#14. I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.
Jarvis Cocker
#15. Remember us, Belle," Cyllinus wept, "when the dangers are past and you sit upon the throne in Greenreach. Think of us. Do not forget me, little one.
Robin Jarvis
#16. Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.
Jarvis Cocker
#17. One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.
Jarvis Cocker
#18. But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.
Jarvis Cocker
#19. The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
Jarvis Cocker
#20. When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.
Jarvis Cocker
#22. I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
Jarvis Cocker
#23. You don't start communities, he said. Communities already exist. They're already doing what they want to do. The question you should ask is how you can help them do that better.
Jeff Jarvis
#24. For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.
Jarvis Cocker
#25. Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.
Jarvis Cocker
#26. Curious how even a little time can alter so much.
Robin Jarvis
#27. Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
Jarvis Cocker
#28. I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.
Jarvis Cocker
#29. One doesn't just chuck away the story of one's life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
#30. Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.
Jeff Jarvis
#31. What's insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they'd say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us
Jeff Jarvis
#32. I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.
Jarvis Cocker
#33. Nobody sells native advertising better than BuzzFeed, with an entire staff devoted to creating its trademark listicles and quizzes just for sponsors: How To Rank Your Happiness By Jars Of Nutella
Jeff Jarvis
#34. I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.
Jarvis Cocker
#35. I would rather kill myself than play my own music ... I can't stand it when people do that.
Jarvis Cocker
#36. I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.
Eugene Jarvis
#37. Have no fear," the voice told her, "for in thee lies the hope of all. Only thou can deliver the land from darkness."
"How can I?" she asked. "I am just one against so many."
The eyes gleamed behind the dappling leaves. "Yet the smallest acorn may become the tallest oak," came the answer.
Robin Jarvis
#38. My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.
Jarvis Cocker
#39. People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.
Jarvis Cocker
#40. The time is come," he spoke quietly. "Now, when lesser folk would wither, thou must be true to the blood of thine ancestors. Much greatness is bred in thee; accept now this terrible mantle and take a step nearer thy destiny.
Robin Jarvis
#41. I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.
Jarvis Cocker
#42. The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.
Robin Jarvis
#43. I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.
Jarvis Cocker
#44. Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.
Robin Jarvis
#45. The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
Jeff Jarvis
#46. I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.
Jarvis Cocker
#47. Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
#48. You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'
Jarvis Cocker
#49. There is no evil in the darkness, it's just an absence of light.
Robin Jarvis
#50. You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.
Jarvis Cocker
#51. For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.
Jarvis Cocker
#52. I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.
Eugene Jarvis
#53. You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
#54. You shouldn't pay attention to things that don't grab your attention. If you do, you're being a pretentious douchebag.
Paul Jarvis
#55. You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.
Jarvis Cocker
#56. Do what you do best and link to the rest
Jeff Jarvis
#57. I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#58. In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#59. Memorization is not as vital a discipline as fulfilling curiosity with research and reasoning ... Internet and Google literacy should be taught to help students vet facts and judge reliability.
Jeff Jarvis
#60. I'd like to see every news organization, large and small, newspaper and blog, sponsor FOIA clubs in their communities to get scores, hundreds, thousands of citizens helping to open up data.
Jeff Jarvis
#61. Keep trying, especially at first. It can be very discouraging if your submissions keep being rejected by a publisher, but if your work is what people want to read, you should get there eventually!
Robin Jarvis
#62. Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.
Chase Jarvis
#63. Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.
Robin Jarvis
#64. Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.
Jarvis Cocker
#65. Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.
Jarvis Cocker
#66. In the future, journalists must ask: How do we encourage and support flows of information?
Jeff Jarvis
#67. Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.
Jarvis Cocker
#68. We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.
Jarvis Cocker
#69. The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?"
"Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt - a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
#70. I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.
Jarvis Cocker
#71. The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#72. Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#73. 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
#74. As content creators, we separate ourselves from the public while we create our product until we are finished and make it public - because that is what our means of production and distribution long demanded; only now are we learning to collaborate during the process.
Jeff Jarvis
#75. Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.
Jeff Jarvis
#76. Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.
Jarvis Cocker
#77. All the honey in the world is nothing without the confirmation of the bees.
Jarvis Price
#78. Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)
Jeff Jarvis
#79. The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.
Jarvis Cocker
#80. I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.
Jarvis Cocker
#81. The game's afoot, Watson, or quite possibly thirteen inches
Ian Jarvis
#82. We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.
Jeff Jarvis
#83. The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.
Eugene Jarvis
#84. The moles came bearing their lamps and then the most ancient and magical creature that ever danced beneath the moon was lost in darkness once more.
Robin Jarvis
#85. Do you ever think about how one minute your life is one way and little do you know, the tides are beginning to turn.
A.D. Jarvis
#86. I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
Eugene Jarvis
#87. Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.
Jarvis Cocker
#88. Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.
Jeff Jarvis
#89. Are we far from the conclusion of this Project? The Prince had asked after dinner. We
Andy Jarvis
#90. I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want to try and look OK for the benefit of other people.
Jarvis Cocker
#92. I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.
Jarvis Cocker
#93. Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
Jarvis Cocker
#94. Note well that investigative journalism springs mostly from two sources: whistleblowers' leaks and beat reporters' expertise.
Jeff Jarvis
#95. The distance between where you are now and the path you think you should be on is probably smaller than you think it is
Chase Jarvis
#96. I am Audrey Brown," she shouted proudly, "and I know nothing of spells, or dark magic: I place myself in the protection of the Green Mouse! Whatever you do to me I know that I shall be received by Him.
Robin Jarvis
#97. Yours is a true heart, Vespertilio. Beware of it, for it is surely too large for thy chest to contain.
Robin Jarvis
#98. If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.
Jarvis Cocker
#99. Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.
Jeff Jarvis
#100. Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.
Jeff Jarvis
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