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James Mercer Quotes

American - Musician | December 26, 1970 -

I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.

Good Think Cheating Doing Done Drum

I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.

Myself Aesthetic Picture Look Way

When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.

Alone Beginning Lie Me Writing Just

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

Music I Am Silly Know Things Fan

My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.

Doing Classic Songwriting Stuff Sort

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

Cool Meeting Kind Addiction Icon He

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

Love Perspective World You Powerful

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.

Thought Never Kids Mortality Much

There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'

Survive Thinking Pressure Remember

I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.

Dumb Kind Kid Extraordinary Dork

I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant, and then walk from there to another nice place - this is, I guess, because of really great dates that I've had with my wife here in Portland.

Great Walk Together Wife Think You

I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.

Work Love Love Is Blue Cool End

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