James Murphy Quotes
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A lot of the time, you compromise., which is fine - it's part of not being totally insane.
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There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.
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We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly.
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I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.
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I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.
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I always wished I had a more flamboyant streak, but it's just not what I'm made of.
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I don't have a TV, and I don't have a radio.
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I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.
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I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.
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I don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.
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If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.
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I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.
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I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.
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I think I'm designed to regret everything.
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When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.
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Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's like food - if you're not eating it, you're doing something wrong. If they're not dancing, something is wrong.
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You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20 speakers and put them in a room that's tuned right, it'll sound great.
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One of my favorite photographers is Ruvan Wijesooriya, who takes most of the LCD photos. His work is incredibly colloquial and raw.
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I am kind of, by definition, a hipster.
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I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop.
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There's kind of a limitless amount of things I want to do, and when the path seems to open, that's when I try to do a thing.
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I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.
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I'm basically a schlub.
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LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.