120 Quotes by James Murphy

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.

I am kind of, by definition, a hipster.

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.

'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

I started playing in my first band when I was 12. I like to date myself by saying I was in a New Age band when it wasn't ironic; it was actually called new wave because it was new.

Titles are relatively arbitrary to me; they take on meanings that aren't really my meanings. 'Sound Of Silver' was just, like, I made the studio silver, and I wanted the record to sound 'more silver.'

If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is in financial management.

I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.