James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
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When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.
