I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I'm not an L.A. guy. I don't take meetings - you know what I mean? I don't really know how to interact… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
At the end of the day music is a grind. You're constantly working at it and even with playing shows as well.… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I heard of this Texas studio. The owner, Tony Rancich, wanted to fly us out for the day to see the studio. I booked… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again. Up to… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people.… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
What we understand to be profoundness, or importance, it changes. It should change. It should be this moment where you cannot believe that equalled… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
I approach every show from the same fundamental perspective: this is a conversation, and my job is to make people leave the show feeling… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share
