I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, when the Walkman came out, I was sold. I listened to music 24 hours a day. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
It's strangely energizing to have people who don't make music themselves take potshots at you from the Internet. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I write songs all the time. Sometimes they're just weird songs I sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Subway Symphony is a little idea I had to change the sound of the subway turnstiles into different pieces of music, depending… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Restaurants remind me of bands: there's lots of camaraderie, people work very closely together, very hard, and it's a bad job to… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
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… — James Murphy Copy Share
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… — James Murphy Copy Share
I know it seems like LCD Soundsystem sold millions and millions of records, but we didn't. I'm not a wealthy person. — James Murphy Copy Share
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer. — James Murphy Copy Share
For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply. — James Murphy Copy Share
My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and… — James Murphy Copy Share
I was always just blown away by David Bowie and how mannered the guy was willing to be. It was so far from what… — James Murphy Copy Share
I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them. — James Murphy Copy Share
DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres. — James Murphy Copy Share
One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I… — James Murphy Copy Share
