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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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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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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But since the devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because reason is the Devil's greatest whore.
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Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.
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If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.
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Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.
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If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.
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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.
