120 Quotes by James Murphy

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.

Making 'Sound of Silver' was very emotional at times, where I just hated making that record.

My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.

I think that not being all that overwhelmed by good reviews is a luxury. I'm like a rich person who says he doesn't care about money.

I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.

I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.

Subway Symphony is a little idea I had to change the sound of the subway turnstiles into different pieces of music, depending on what station you're entering.

I've watched too many artists in my life forget how good the things they used to do were.