Jill Sobule Quotes

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world.

Music is in my DNA!

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

The great love of my life is music.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.