American - Musician | April 27, 1978 -
That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.
Jim James
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I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what's going on in your brain.
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When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
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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 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 feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.
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I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.
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You want to make a record that stands the test of time and that people enjoy.
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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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There were lots of songs that were on 'It Still Moves' that I had written, and we had played - rehearsed, but also played live a couple of times - that could've gone on 'At Dawn', but we always knew we wanted to make a record that was more quote-unquote 'rock n' roll.'
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We wanted 'At Dawn' to be what it was: kinda spaced-out.
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