James Murphy Quotes
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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 basically a schlub.
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I think I'm designed to regret everything.
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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 don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.
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I moved to New York in 1989 and went to study at NYU.
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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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I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.
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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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I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.
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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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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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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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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 actually really love people.
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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 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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LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.
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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 don't write off silly pop people at all, because you never know where they're coming from.
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I can be staggeringly evangelical. That's just my personality.
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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.
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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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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.