JP Saxe Quotes

JP Saxe

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 23, 1993

It took me a while to start releasing music, because it was important to me that I knew what I wanted to say before I said anything.

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Since I was a kid, I've always felt like songs were saying things to me.

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I've always been really hesitant to wish any part of my life happened sooner because I love my life and I've loved my life for a really long time.

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I think to varying degrees, every artist is using their partner as a sounding board. When your partner is the greatest songwriter of all time, you may use them as a sounding board a little bit more.

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My favorite music has always been the music that makes me feel closer to myself, songs that let me access some sort of emotion inside of me that I don't know how to get to without that song. In making my debut album, I wanted to make songs like that too.

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I thought for a long time I needed to look at other people who were successful and then do what they did. But over the years, I realized I will be the most successful if I just do exactly what I love and exactly what I want to do and exactly the way I want to do it.

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To me, songs hit harder when they live in the questions, because songs have always been a mode of sorting through my emotions. If I waited to figure them out before I wrote them, they'd be really boring, preachy songs.

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My hope is that my songs make you think about yourself, in your own life, and not really about me.

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I prefer to be out of the way, not because of an insecurity or shyness but because I think art is at its best when it has you thinking about yourself, the people you love, and your own life.

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I tweeted how much I loved Maren Morris' songs. I didn't really see her seeing that tweet as a possibility, but she did.

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It's OK to be an overthinker, an over-feeler, and it's the only thing I know how to be.

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If I'm not being myself in my music, I'm getting up on stage every night and lying to myself; it would be a real cause for identity crisis.

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Oscar Peterson's 'Hymn to Freedom' is the first song I ever lifted on the piano. I learned it note-for-note and it's still probably the first thing I play sitting down at a new piano. One of my favourite melodies of all time.

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The first time I heard 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,' I did not know music could sound like that. The vocal arrangement on 'Tell Him,' the way that makes me feel is unlike anything I've ever heard.

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I think 99 percent of the time, texting your ex is a horrible idea.

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Things often feel real when we're able to share them.

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There's only so much numbers on the Internet can be emotionally internalized.

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