J. Robbins Quotes

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• Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.
• One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music…
• I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.
• Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying…
• 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 Australia called Big…
• 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 for vocals…
• To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.
• I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.
• The Grammys thing doesn't even touch my world at all.
• You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group…
• 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 Grammy/MTV kind of…
• I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to…
• The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension
• I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to express yourself. And…
• I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.
• I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output as a lyric…
• I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless.
• When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.
• Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound…
• It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty…

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