James Murphy Quotes
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I'm basically a schlub.
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After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.
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I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.
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The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go.
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The plan is to keep on putting out records until someone shows up and tells us to stop.
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I started playing in my first band when I was 12. I like to date myself by saying I was in a New Age band when it wasn't ironic; it was actually called new wave because it was new.
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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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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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I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic' - just this catch-all term to distance people from interesting experiences and cultural engagement and possible embarrassment.
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Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys gave me a present: it's a boombox with a keyboard and a beatbox in it. You can't make that up.
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I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
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I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.
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I don't write off silly pop people at all, because you never know where they're coming from.
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Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.
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I know it seems like LCD Soundsystem sold millions and millions of records, but we didn't. I'm not a wealthy person.
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Producing is always really hard, and you can never tell who's going to be easy to get along with and who's going to be difficult.
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I wouldn't say I'm a friend of David Byrne, but I guess I'm an acquaintance. I'm obviously an admirer, and we've met, but we don't call and chat about 'Breaking Bad' or anything.
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I actually really love people.
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My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and you have to go on instinct.
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LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.
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I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.
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I can be staggeringly evangelical. That's just my personality.
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I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.
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'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.