To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that. — James Murphy Control Copy Share Image
I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as necessarily a very creative person. I'm a technical guy. — James Murphy Creative Copy Share Image
I've watched too many artists in my life forget how good the things they used to do were. — James Murphy Art Copy Share Image
I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I started playing in my first band when I was 12. I like to date myself by saying I was in a… — James Murphy Age Copy Share Image
I think that not being all that overwhelmed by good reviews is a luxury. I'm like a rich person who says he… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys gave me a present: it's a boombox with a keyboard and a beatbox in it. You… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office,… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20… — 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… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
When I want to DJ what I think to be the best-sounding place in the world, I go to this place in… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I got a phone message from Janet Jackson saying, 'Hi, I love 'Losing My Edge', can you do me something funky and… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism… — 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 Christmas Copy Share Image
LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I spent a good amount of time with David Bowie, and I was talking about getting the band back together. He said,… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
The plan is to keep on putting out records until someone shows up and tells us to stop. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie. — James Murphy Beautiful Copy Share Image
