All J. Robbins Quotes
- Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question. Heartbreaking
- 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… Blake
- I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me. Endure
- 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… Creativity
- 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… Artist
- 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… Been
- To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term. Inspirational
- I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it. Financial
- The Grammys thing doesn't even touch my world at all. 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… Buying
- 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… All
- 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… Attention
- The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension 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… Aspect
- I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap. Inspirational
- 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… Bums
- 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. Extra
- When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever. Across
- 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… Best
- 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… Closely
- 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 to get something… Band
- One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take. Like, they're playing… Band
- Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite… Band
- I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really… All
- I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer. Bad