American - Musician | February 4, 1970 -
I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.
James Murphy
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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 was someone who grew up obsessed with bands, how they were and how they treated one another, and how they treated fans.
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I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.
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Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.
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I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.
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To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.
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I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.
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My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.
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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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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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If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is in financial management.
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