A biography for James Murphyhasn’t been written yet.
“I think I'm designed to regret everything.”
“You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20 speakers and put them in a room that's tuned right, it'll sound great.”
“When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.”
“When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.”
“LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.”
“There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.”
“There's kind of a limitless amount of things I want to do, and when the path seems to open, that's when I try to do a thing.”
“I can be staggeringly evangelical. That's just my personality.”
“I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.”
“I spent a good amount of time with David Bowie, and I was talking about getting the band back together. He said, 'Does it make you uncomfortable?' I said 'Yeah,', and he said, 'Good. It should. You should be uncomfortable.'”
“I don't write off silly pop people at all, because you never know where they're coming from.”
“With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.”
“To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.”
“We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly.”
“I don't prepare very well. I'm always sort of wrapped up in what I'm supposed to be doing in the moment, and then I suddenly appear someplace, and I'm really not prepared.”
“The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go.”
“The more you are like me, the less interested in my band you are.”
“Songs are songs, and to reduce them is to waste them.”
“The Fall was super powerful to me because of their covers. They were intimidating. I bought 'This Nation's Saving Grace' when it came out in 1985, and there was something about it that made me nervous. It terrified me.”
“I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.”