American - Musician | February 4, 1970 -
I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.
James Murphy
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I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.
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LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.
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LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.
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I'm basically a schlub.
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I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.
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If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.
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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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Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's like food - if you're not eating it, you're doing something wrong. If they're not dancing, something is wrong.
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When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.
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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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Those early years in New Jersey were amazing. We lived in a really small town with tons of kids my age. There were fields and woods and a creek - it was a pretty ideal place to be a little kid.
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