Jill Sobule Quotes

#1. I've never been good at the money thing. I have had a couple of really nice but inept managers, and a business accountant that ripped me off. But I cannot totally blame my money making lameness on them.

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#2. I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.

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#3. As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.

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#4. I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.

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#5. My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.

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#6. And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

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#7. I would go to heaven, if I believed in heaven.

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#8. Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

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#9. I still have this unrealistic faith, that one day, my ship will come in. More people will discover, understand and buy my stuff.

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#10. I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool - and have good taste, obviously.

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#11. My rocking out didn't make me particularly popular with the boys or girls. It wasn't cute or feminine. I was more of a ... weirdo.

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#12. I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.

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#13. I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

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#14. My mom wore the pants in the family, for sure. I always say, that I spent my childhood trying to get the love and attention of my mom, and now I can't get rid of it.

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#15. I wish I had somebody to rock me to sleep.

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#16. As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

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#17. I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.

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#18. I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

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#19. I was a weird kid.

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#20. When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no different than when I wrote songs for myself in high-school.

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#21. I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.

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#22. In a way, I'm not at all jaded, and still enjoy so much what I do. It's a good trick.

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#23. When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

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#24. I am doomed or fortunate to stick to what I do best.

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#25. I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.

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#26. I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

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#27. Unfortunately you can't copyright a title ... bummer.

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#28. When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

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#29. My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play.

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#30. Can you imagine a 6 year old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set.

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#31. I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

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#32. I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my "rock playing", I might be a world class shredder.

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#33. My original idea- and I still want to do it -for Pinko Records, would be to create a platform for other artists to do the same thing I did. They could create their own levels of donation and final goal. I have no idea how I would make any money on that -but I don't think like that.

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#34. I haven't learned anything new on guitar since high school. And I think it's time to learn something.

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#35. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

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