James Murphy Quotes
With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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We all are so serious when we are younger.
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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Because of television, sports columnists have become personalities. I went to a party [during Super Bowl week] and there must have been 500 people who wanted to talk to me because they saw me on TV. I've become sort of the Soupy Sales character on TV, and people do not really know me as a writer.
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With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.
