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“The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.”

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J. Robbins
J. Robbins

J. Robbins, born in 1967, is an outstanding musical artist. His musical career is filled with rich creativity and a unique artistic style, which has won the favor of a wide audience. more

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“I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to express yourself. And the fact is that - and this is the thing about punk rock - that everyone is in a position to create culture, and that point has never been lost on me. To me, that's an important political aspect of doing this, and trying to live in a way that's about dialogue as opposed to like... spectacle.”

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“I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output as a lyric writer is that I look back at it and there's some turn-of-phrases and some images and some kind of montage-y kinds of things I'm really proud of. But it kind of bums me out that people have told me again and again that they don't really understand what I'm trying to say.”

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