I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons. — Jim James Copy Share Image
I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff. — Jim James Copy Share Image
It's a joy, the process itself, even instrumentally, playing and constructing music. It's just so beautiful to me. — Jim James Copy Share Image
Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as… — Jim James Copy Share Image
'The Muppet Show' was huge. I watched it all the time as a kid, and I really loved the way they used… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I'd write songs like 'One Big Holiday,' and we'd play it and say, 'It's too heavy for 'At Dawn.' Let's save it… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about… — Jim James Copy Share Image
My aunt played upright bass in the Louisville Orchestra, and I was always really impressed by her musical ability. I found it… — Jim James Copy Share Image
If you do something, you should do it because you love it, and you should follow your heart and make it how… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I really believe what people have said before, that God is love. For me, it's music. For you, it might be writing,… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I guess people have a hard time dealing with humour in music. But sometimes life is depressing, and sometimes life is fun,… — Jim James Copy Share Image
You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But… — Jim James Copy Share Image
For me, changing the sound and listening to new music - that's just so fun. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.… — Jim James Copy Share Image
It's tough to make music and make it your own, and not have somebody call it something you don't agree with but… — Jim James Copy Share Image
That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure,… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I think there are lots of things that people think are so different but they're not. People think there is a huge… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I was always kind of against streaming, but I've been traveling so much, and I usually carry a huge hard drive of… — Jim James Copy Share Image
There were lots of songs that were on 'It Still Moves' that I had written, and we had played - rehearsed, but… — Jim James Copy Share Image
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… — Jim James Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform… — Jim James Copy Share Image
Live music is incredible because you get to be with people, and you get to have this tactile, real-world experience, but at… — Jim James Copy Share Image
Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I exercise all the time, every morning, and then I do music in the afternoon. I walk two to three miles a… — Jim James Copy Share Image
It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as… — Jim James Copy Share Image
It's hard to say what an album is about - because each one is usually about a lot of things to me,… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I tried to score a few films with this composer Brian Reitzell here in L.A. We made a bunch of music we… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who's one of my closest confidants and allies when I'm working on new music.… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a lifetime career. If you look at people like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, people who have been… — Jim James Copy Share Image
We don't have universal health care. Education is so expensive. We have these massive problems, you know? So it makes me really… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or… — Jim James Copy Share Image
Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become… — Jim James Copy Share Image
Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition… — Jim James Copy Share Image
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… — Jim James Copy Share Image
God forbid Donald Trump gets elected president; think about how many people are going to get f**ked over or how much harder we're going… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called 'Minor Miracles' by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats.… — Jim James Copy Share Image
Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time. — Jim James Copy Share Image
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars. — Jim James Copy Share Image
Don't let your silly dreams fall in between the crack of the bed and the wall. — Jim James Copy Share Image
I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art. — Jim James Copy Share Image
Ever since I got back surgery, everything in my life has been about reduction. I've got the lightest backpack I can carry and the… — Jim James Copy Share Image
