Quotes by Tobias Jesso Jr. - Page 1

I want to be romantic, and songs are a good way to do that.
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Good Way
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In one week, I got hit by a car - it busted through my hand - and my mom got cancer.
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Busted
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I often compare my voice to an old car you're only 50% sure will turn on when you need it to.
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Compare
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I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.
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Nerves
Socks
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I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.
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Chorus
Actual
Rapping
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I'm a piano player and singer who can't play piano very well or sing very well. That isn't a recipe for success. I have to get better.
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Singer
Piano Player
Recipe
Sing
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I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.
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Abstract
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I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive.
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Unrequited Love
Obsessive
Thrive
Unrequited
Full-On
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Piano is one of those instruments you don't have to be good at to sound good - you just have to know where to put three little fingers, which is really pretty easy to figure out.
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Fingers
Instruments
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Some of my best songwriting choices started as mistakes or learning curves, when I accidentally hit a 'wrong' key or something. I try not to lose that the more I learn the how's and why's of piano.
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Curves
Songwriting
Accidentally
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I think the first time I tried to write a romantic song, it was just horrendously embarrassing. I remember thinking, 'Okay, I'm not going to do that anymore.' I think that sort of embarrassed me for the next 10 years.
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Embarrassed
Okay
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Obviously I'm not the best singer; obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.
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Best Way Doing
Piano Player
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I've been in love since I was 14; it's always focused on someone or something and it's always unrequited. It's led to a lot of cheesy lines, but it's also the way I am. I want to be romantic, and songs are a good way to do that.
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Cheesy
Song
Unrequited
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I was putting songs on Facebook and YouTube just for my friends. When one got over 100 plays, I would do a dance. The first time someone that I didn't know commented, it was a dream come true. A year and a half later, I played 'Fallon.'
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Youtube
Commented
Facebook
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L.A. can make you feel like you've already made it. You're living off 40 dollars a week; it's nice weather. You go outside on your bike; you go to the coffee shop, and everybody is doing nothing. It doesn't leave a lot of room for ambition.
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Ambition
Bike
Coffee
Dollars
Weather
Shop
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Some people get on the whole touring circuit for years and years and years on one record. What interests me is sitting down at a piano, writing songs, getting into a studio and exploring new sounds to come up with something I'm really proud of.
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Exploring
Touring
Me People New
Circuit
Years And Years
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I have always had problems with my voice, and the piano helped me believe the song could be bigger than my voice, and I could play with new melodies and things that I couldn't on guitar. It was easier to make the sound fuller and easier to get away with not being as good.
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Fuller
Melodies
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When l write my own stuff, that's my only alone time. From wake-up to going to bed, I'm with someone. I don't like to do anything alone. I guess it's insecurity. When I travel, I won't go anywhere without people to go do something. I'm happier around people; the more people the better.
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More People
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I learned piano off YouTube and still do a lot. It's hard to find contemporary indie music on there, at least lessons, because the reach is smaller. I did it so people like me out there could learn my songs if they wanted to and maybe, in a small way, to pay forward all the free lessons I've had over the years.
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Contemporary
Lessons
Youtube
Music Me Youtube
Indie
Smaller
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I was chubby in high school. I used to go to my information technology class, and I would type really fast to get the lesson done quick because the teacher had a little acoustic guitar, and there was a girl I had a crush on in the class. I would take the guitar and pretend to be some great singer-songwriter, serenade her with joke songs.
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Acoustic Guitar
Information Technology
Acoustic
Chubby
Pretend
Lesson
Singer Songwriter
Quick
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If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons.
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Dream
Men
Writing
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I struggle to try not to read the press about my album. It was great when the first stuff came out to hear that people liked it, but at the same time at this point it's almost hard for me to read because as much as I'm uncomfortable with my voice, trust me, I'm more uncomfortable with the things I say. [laughs] To see it on a written page, it's like, "Oh my god. I told that guy I'm a hopeless romantic! What am I doing?"
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Laughing
People
Struggle
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Looking back on my whole experience, the biggest takeaway was just being proud of what you do, and knowing that it's okay to do your best even if it's not the best. That's sort of the theme. I mean, obviously I'm not the best singer, obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.
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Fall
Mean
Player
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