Josh Tillman Quotes

Josh Tillman

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 3, 1981

I made a decision as a child that I would never let anyone tell me that I was invalid or inauthentic, or that my experiences were.

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I think that life is messy and that human beings are insane.

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My music asks people to think critically, so how can I get upset when people think about me critically?

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What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And so I am not ever surprised when I see evangelicals contort themselves to justify supporting Donald Trump.

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There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

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I was asked to audition for the second season of 'Stranger Things.' I didn't want that level of exposure. I don't want to be TV famous.

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The main criticism people have of me is, 'Why are you trying so hard? This guy's exhausting.' Yeah, I am! That's my way of trying to get love.

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People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.

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I'm not bamboozled by the fact that people are disgusted by me. I'm not my biggest fan either.

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I get sick pleasure out of going on the Internet and reading about how much people hate me.

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I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

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I've engineered my life so that my only value in this world is in my writing, which is really dangerous, because if it's a failure, then my life is meaningless.

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People used to see things that disgusted them and say, 'I never want to see that again.' Now we've reached the point where we see things that are disturbing and revolting to us, but we want to see more and more of it.

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You can choose to live in love or choose to live in fear.

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I love the exhilaration of feeling a pull quote come out of your mouth. The words just taste better.

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Interpretive thinking, as an art form, is dying.

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People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

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J. Tillman was kind of an alter ego. There was a lot I didn't want people to know about my real life. With Father John Misty, I leave everything in: so much so that I lose sleep before these albums come out because there is always a line or two in there where I'm just like, 'This is not going to go down very well.'

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I think Kanye West is a hilarious writer.

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My guiding principle when writing with other people is that it's not worth it to give someone a song unless it hurts for me to give them that song.

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