James Edward Olliges Jr. Quotes
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I've gotten into doing electronic books and audiobooks, so I have an iPad. I still love reading a real book, but when you travel, it's better than carrying around a bunch of books.
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I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.
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After I wake up, I always meditate.
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When I make a record with My Morning Jacket, I love what those guys do, so I don't have a need to play bass or drums or anything, because we're doing that as a unit.
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Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.
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Fleet Foxes are a really talented band. They make beautiful music.
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I've always loved that, on all the Dylan and Springsteen and Marley and Neil Young reissues that they've done: It's so cool to hear alternate versions and how the song started in their mind.
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For a lot of people, life's been pretty good. There hasn't been true terror right in your face.
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I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or some kind of teaching of art, because I feel like art is a more free area in school than music is. I feel like music is too mathematic for me. Music school's so hard. It's math.
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It's hard to say what an album is about - because each one is usually about a lot of things to me, but then I hope it also can mean a lot of different things to someone else. That's the beautiful thing about music.
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Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.
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For me, it's more powerful to hear people sing about God than love in most circumstances because I've been hearing people sing about love for most of my life.
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I feel like the world gets so consumed and gobbled up by action, and the pace of life is so frantic, and people feel like, in order to move somebody, you have to do something shocking or violent or something insane and fast.
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Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.
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It's a joy, the process itself, even instrumentally, playing and constructing music. It's just so beautiful to me.
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I always think of albums as the format. I think it's perfect. I don't think you can tamper with that. It's not just sound, the analog, which is so much richer. It's the format. You're constrained by just 45 minutes, and it's perfect to me. I don't want to listen to any more than, and I live and breathe music.
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I think we're going to look back on the Internet in 50 to 100 years as a big mistake.
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That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.
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I guess people have a hard time dealing with humour in music. But sometimes life is depressing, and sometimes life is fun, is about just laughing with your friends, and I wanted to express that as well as the darker stuff.
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I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.
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Somebody brought up the idea of reissuing 'Tribute To 1' because it was out of print on vinyl.
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I listened to 'En la Ceremony' and had always wished it had some flamenco guitar.
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The whole Jacket thing is so much about us playing together and creating this circle of power.
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I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.