Jonathan Coulton famous quotes

03-28-2025

I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#People #Ego #Way
I'd always meant to become a musician. I'd just never gotten around to it. And my daughter being born, I was like, Okay, this is seriously the last chance. And also: Do you really want to be a dad who never did what he wanted to do? You've got to set an example now. You've got to do this.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#Daughter #Dad #Musician
Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#Song #Stars #Writing
I always feel uncomfortable at parties, and I'm often nervous when talking to strangers. I don't think this makes me feel special. Maybe everybody feels this way.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#Party #Thinking #Talking
I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who are like that, but I love it when the humor comes from a character who is serious about his situation - only the way he's thinking about it is all wrong, or the ways he's solving his problems are never going to work.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#Character #Thinking #Way
For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#Journey #Expression #Shows
There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#Music #Funny Things #People
You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#Love #Romantic #Thinking
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#Running #Mistake #Cake
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#People #Stuff #Easy
I'm just a dude and I feel like being completely isolated would be kind of a drag. I really do get a lot of energy from feedback from fans. People create music videos and artwork for my music.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#People #Energy #Be Kind
There's a vast ecosystem for music outside of Myspace and Facebook and you need to make sure that your music is in as many hands as possible. I wanted people to share my music and tell friends about me, and if you want to rely on word of mouth, you have to make it easy for people. I got lucky because I had a few songs that hit big and got a lot of links on blog posts.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#Song #People #Lucky
It's weird but it's amazing, and it's great to know people are thinking about you. It's a huge ego boost and anyone that says they don't love that is lying.
-- Jonathan Coulton

#Lying #Thinking About You #People

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