James Murphy Quotes
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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'm a very self-conscious person.
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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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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'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 drink beer, and I don't drink at home.
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I don't have a TV, and I don't have a radio.
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If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.
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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 think I'm designed to regret everything.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.
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I've watched too many artists in my life forget how good the things they used to do were.
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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.