James Murphy Quotes
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I'm a very self-conscious person.
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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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There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.
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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'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 don't have a TV, and I don't have a radio.
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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've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.
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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 don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.
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I think I'm designed to regret everything.
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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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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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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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I am kind of, by definition, a hipster.
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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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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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I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.
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I don't prepare very well. I'm always sort of wrapped up in what I'm supposed to be doing in the moment, and then I suddenly appear someplace, and I'm really not prepared.
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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.
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I'm basically a schlub.
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I've watched too many artists in my life forget how good the things they used to do were.