"My attempt at really doing classic sort of……" — James Mercer
"My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff."
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James Mercer
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22 Quotes by James Mercer
James Mercer has 22 quotes on this site.
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The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort…
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I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me,…
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There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You…
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I was really shy as a kid.
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I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big…
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Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying…
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My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear…
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I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more…
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I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a…
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Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you…
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So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only,…
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I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful…
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
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