120 Quotes by James Murphy

I know it seems like LCD Soundsystem sold millions and millions of records, but we didn't. I'm not a wealthy person.

I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop.

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 a modern city.

What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both LCD Soundsystem, but in very different ways.

Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.

A lot of the time, you compromise., which is fine - it's part of not being totally insane.

After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.

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 you have to go on instinct.