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Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.


Moritz J. Saphir

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J. COLE I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's w...
J. COLE College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess ...
J. COLE I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. ...
J. COLE I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't ser...
J. COLE I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never...
J. COLE I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in...
J. COLE Anything I do, I want to do it well.
J. COLE I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to...
J. TILLMAN I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself a...
J. TILLMAN You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I us...
J. TILLMAN I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would ...
J. TILLMAN My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of th...
J. TILLMAN I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was k...
J. TILLMAN I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually mean...
J. TILLMAN I play sad bastard music. For the money.
J. TILLMAN There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
J. TILLMAN Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angr...
J. TILLMAN I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's ...
J. TILLMAN With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be ...
J. TILLMAN I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff...
J. TILLMAN When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that...
J. TILLMAN I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwrit...
J. TILLMAN Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J. TILLMAN It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
J. TILLMAN My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
J. TILLMAN I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop unt...
J. COLE Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on ...
J. COLE There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'...
J. COLE For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes.
JUICY J I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. COLE I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.
JESSIE J I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? Wh...
JESSIE J Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.
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