"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
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"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
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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-Francis Cabot Lowell
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