Quotes by Jon Bellion - Page 1

My artistry is my baby.
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Artistry
Baby
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I wanna make music; that's all I wanna do.
Jon Bellion /
Wanna
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I'm just a product of the '90s, to be honest.
Jon Bellion /
To Be Honest
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I'm fascinated by Jesus and pray to him every day.
Jon Bellion /
Jesus
Fascinated
Day Every Day Every
Pray
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I'm not afraid to have my music digestible by different ages.
Jon Bellion /
Different Ages
Afraid
Ages
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The first 12 bars of 'Pre-Occupied' explains my entire career.
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Bars
Career
Entire
Entire Career
Explains
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At the end of the day, we want love, and we want to feel loved.
Jon Bellion /
Feel
Love Day Feel
Love End Of The Day Day
Loved
Day
End Of The Day
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When I want to get inspired, I'll put a Pixar movie on silent and listen to Nas.
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Inspired
Pixar
Silent
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If I can show people how vulnerable and how flawed I am, maybe others will relate.
Jon Bellion /
Flawed
Relate
Vulnerable
I Am People Will
Show
Maybe
Show People
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You can't really force kids to like music. I'm a firm believer in an organic fan base.
Jon Bellion /
Believer
Firm
Base
Fan Base
Firm Believer
Organic
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Sometimes I feel drawn to writing about my shortcomings because I'm chock full of them.
Jon Bellion /
Full
Drawn
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A lot of the album 'The Definition' was made from two things: Pixar movies and J. Dilla.
Jon Bellion /
Pixar
Album
Definition
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As long as I don't have to go back to the catering hall and wait tables anymore, I'm very happy.
Jon Bellion /
Catering
Tables
Hall
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'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.
Jon Bellion /
Speakers
Aspirations
Literally
Translating
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I have a fan base eager for more stuff. That makes me more than happy. I know I have an army behind me.
Jon Bellion /
Army
Me More Know
Base
Me Know More
Eager
Fan Base
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My brother is 10 years older than me, so whatever he listened to is what I listened to, and it was all rap.
Jon Bellion /
Rap
Listened
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I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just minor stepping stones.
Jon Bellion /
Climax
Career
Hits
Minor
Stepping
View
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Originally, 'The Monster' started out as this indie, Florence And The Machine, tribal-y, almost Spanish-esque dance record.
Jon Bellion /
Florence
Indie
Monster
Originally
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I'm born and raised Long Island. Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ben Gibbard - melody-driven guys... They shaped me, molded my music.
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Born
Long Island
Raised
Music Me Long
Ben
Billy
Billy Joel
Island
Guys
Shaped
Molded
Paul
Paul Simon
Simon
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I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.
Jon Bellion /
Sick
Hooks
Jump
Produced
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Rapping was a hobby; when I went to college, there were a ton of dudes rapping. I think that's where I got my rapping chops up.
Jon Bellion /
Chops
Dudes
Rapping
Ton
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As far as the U.K. goes, The 1975 is one of my favourite groups in a very long time. I love the sonics. I love everything they do.
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Favourite
Groups
Love Time Long
Very Long Time
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Sometimes, people will fight over five, six percent, because if it's a smash record, that can mean a lot of money. I don't really care.
Jon Bellion /
Five
Percent
Six
Money Fight People
Record
Smash
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If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.
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Generous
If I Could
Spread
Creatively
Move Forward
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I'd watch Pixar movies for, like, six hours, back-to-back. I'd watch 'Finding Nemo' twice a week, back-to-back-to-back, three times in a row.
Jon Bellion /
Hours
Pixar
Six
Week
Twice
Watch
Finding
Row
Twice A Week
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I used to work at a catering hall in Hauppauge. Anybody who works as a server in a catering hall, more power to you, but I wanted to make music.
Jon Bellion /
Catering
Server
Hall
More Power
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I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to Band of Horses to J. Dilla to Deathcab for Cutie to Pharrell.
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Horses
Jay
Listened
Sum
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People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that you find wrong with yourself. Because that's how we really are.
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Being Honest
Relate
Yourself Your People
Insecurities
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I wrote 'Monster' and thought that it would solve a lot of my problems, that I'd have money in the bank, but I felt no different. I was still searching for something.
Jon Bellion /
Bank
Monster
Searching
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I grew up on Dilla, Timbaland, Pharrell, all these drums that are super pocketed, so all those influences come out on a song like 'Ungrateful Eyes,' with all the crazy drum swing.
Jon Bellion /
Ungrateful
Drum
Influences
Super
Swing
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People don't realize I make records eight or nine months before they come out. I'm directing the videos; I have a lot of work to do. I'm very involved in all that stuff creatively.
Jon Bellion /
Eight
Nine
Nine Months
Records
Creatively
Directing
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I came to the realization that I'm a child of God, and that's my identity. If this all goes tomorrow, I don't have the proverbial rug under me that can be pulled out. I'm taken care of, and there's someone who loves me.
Jon Bellion /
Care
Identity
Proverbial
Realization
Taken
Tomorrow
Child
God Me Care
Came
Loves
Goes
Pulled
Rug
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I always want to approach records from where it feels very graspable. You know what the song's about, but it's presented to you in a way that's like, 'I never heard something like this before,' but it doesn't push you away.
Jon Bellion /
Approach
Records
Presented
Push
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I think honest lyrics help somebody say, 'I was struggling with this, but if Jon goes through that, too, and if Jon's telling me that his life isn't as good as it seems on his Instagram,' that helps somebody in their day to day.
Jon Bellion /
Honest
Instagram
Seems
Life Good Me
Jon
Goes
Helps
Struggling
Telling
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When you get a song placed with two of the top stars in the world, like Rihanna and Eminem, especially as a new writer, they're gonna take a huge chunk of your publishing. That's just the way the business is. I'm not complaining.
Jon Bellion /
Complaining
Huge
Publishing
Stars
Writer
Rihanna
Chunk
Eminem
Placed
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I think some of the best music throughout the actual history of music itself came from cultures where they're not really looking for outside themes. It's developed from their hometowns - it's what they love and what they love to do.
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Actual
Cultures
Developed
Outside
Themes
Throughout
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The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way he paints pictures and speaks and talks. It's almost like talk-singing. Paul Simon does that very well as well. He's a huge influence of mine.
Jon Bellion /
Huge
Influence
Picture
Ben
Huge Influence
Mine
Paints
Paul
Paul Simon
Simon
Speaks
Talks
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You grow up listening to Eminem; your parents don't let you listen to it - you gotta sneak into a car to listen to this guy rap. He changed my whole life, my whole perspective on music, so to more or less co-sign something that I've done is the ultimate childhood goal.
Jon Bellion /
Music
Car
Changed
Childhood
Done
Guy
Listening
Perspective
Rap
Sneak
Ultimate
Whole
Life Car Music
Grow
Less
Eminem
Gotta
Grow Up
Parents
More Or Less
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