James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

James Vincent McMorrow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 14, 1983

Topics

I AmPeopleTryingYouArtistWell

I don't want to admit it, but I do enjoy the feedback from the audience. It's instant feedback. It's like, you could do a movie, shoot it for a year, wait six months, it comes out and you gotta do three weeks of marketing. Three weeks of that, and everyone goes, 'It sucks.'

Jimmy Fallon

WaitFeedbackEnjoyYearYouThree

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

John Churton Collins

ManWiseWise ManEasyDifficult

My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA.

Robert Lopez

JobWritingFirstCompany

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

Amos Lee

MusicKnowNeedAnythingTheory

Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I'm not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it's about the work, not about how big my trailer is.

Amy Irving

WorkGreatMyselfFightPeopleWay

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

Simon Le Bon

AgeOld AgeYourselfPeopleThink

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.

Tom Douglas

HometownMayorMadeOnceNewark

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

Roald Dahl

TodayPainHappyDoctorFaceYou

Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.

Louie Anderson

LoveWorldThinkRunWholeReally

For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.

Christopher Poole

TimeMeWrongWayContentJust

Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise.

Cory Booker

LoveBestHateTogetherAmerica

I spend my money on cars. That's why I have a Challenger. It's a muscle car, like a Mustang. It's big and rumbly.

Brian Fallon

CarMoneyWhyMuscleChallengerBig

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