I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I always wished I had a more flamboyant streak, but it's just not what I'm made of. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres. — 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
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
I wouldn't say I'm a friend of David Byrne, but I guess I'm an acquaintance. I'm obviously an admirer, and we've met,… — James Murphy Acquaintance 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
I don't write off silly pop people at all, because you never know where they're coming from. — 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 Change 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
Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Producing is always really hard, and you can never tell who's going to be easy to get along with and who's going… — 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 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 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 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
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 Food Copy Share Image
Those early years in New Jersey were amazing. We lived in a really small town with tons of kids my age. There… — James Murphy Age Copy Share Image
To me, the band is like one of my homes, in fact. It's not like, 'I've got to get out of this… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I can be staggeringly evangelical. That's just my personality. — James Murphy Evangelical Copy Share Image
My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person. — James Murphy Computer Copy Share Image
Gimme A Kiss … No … Bae Please … Nooooo … Baeeee ……*Starts Kissing* :) — James Murphy Copy Share Image
What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is… — James Murphy 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
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
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
My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
