American - Musician | February 4, 1970 -
I miss producing. I hate it when I do it, but I love it.
James Murphy
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With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.
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Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos.
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Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.
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When Andy Kaufman performed, he was not just trying to be funny. He was playing with the notion of what it means to try to be funny, of what it means to be an audience expecting somebody to be funny. He was doing a dance and playing a game.
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I can be staggeringly evangelical. That's just my personality.
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I think I'm designed to regret everything.
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I know it seems like LCD Soundsystem sold millions and millions of records, but we didn't. I'm not a wealthy person.
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I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop.
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I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's a modern city.
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A lot of the time, you compromise., which is fine - it's part of not being totally insane.
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After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.
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