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J. Robbins

(1967) Record Producer United States

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J. Robbins is a record producer from the United States, best known for Shadow Empire.

Quick Facts About J. Robbins

Born: January 1, 1967
Nationality: United States
Profession: Record Producer
Notable works: Shadow Empire

About J. Robbins

James Robbins, better known as J. Robbins, is an American rock musician and record producer. He is best known for being the leader of the post-hardcore band Jawbox and being a prolific producer of other bands in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. area.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by J. Robbins

For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like…

Coaching

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The Grammys thing doesn't even touch my world at all.

Funny

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Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to…

And love

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I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that…

Complicated

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Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great…

Actors

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I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people…

Attention

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I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that…

Business

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I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

Inspirational

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I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.

Endure

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There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from…

Art

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You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more…

Buying

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I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that…

Extra mile

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The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension

Dimensions

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One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone…

Blake

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One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take.…

Band

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Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where…

Creativity

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I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to…

Aspect

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I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order…

Band

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I think Supernatural is the last WB show that's still on the air. It came from The WB and transitioned to The…

Air

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When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.

Eye

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Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.

Heartbreaking

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I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

Drummer

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It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely.…

Dying

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I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.

Cybersecurity

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I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output…

Again and again

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