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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
- Conversational
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- Nov 07, 2020
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play sad bastard music. For the money.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
- Legitimate
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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- Nov 07, 2020