The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks.


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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.
J. FRANKLIN
I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long...
J. COLE
It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my granda...
JESSIE J
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
J. KRISHNAMURTI
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
J. SWARTZ
I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.
JESSIE J
People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw beca...
J. MERRIDEW
There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it...
J. STERLING
We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us...
J. LYNN
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
J. YAHL
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obsti...
J. SWARTZ
There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship...
J. KRISHNAMURTI
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer...
J. KRISHNAMURTI
Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.
J. MASAI
A bureaucrat is a person who cuts red tape sideways.
J. MCCABE
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
J. HELLER
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with ...
J. BARTLETT
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
J. BROTHERTON
A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels o...
J. HAWES