Direct Quote by James Murphy Download Open image “If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.” — James Murphy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Direct Hid Influence Never Power Song
In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist. — Kiesza Copy Share Image
It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if… — Beck Copy Share Image
When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher… — Daya Copy Share Image
My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song. — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not an author, but as a songwriter, I'm afforded this kind of luxurious ambiguity in songs of being able to confess the secrets… — Finneas Copy Share Image
When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the… — El-P 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 it. It's… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I know it seems like LCD Soundsystem sold millions and millions of records, but we didn't. I'm not a wealthy person. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply. — 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 time, and… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I was always just blown away by David Bowie and how mannered the guy was willing to be. It was so far from what… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing… — John Ford Copy Share Image
The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. — Stanley Smith Stevens Copy Share Image
A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
