James Murphy Quotes
I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.
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Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another.
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All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.
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I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.
