Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos.
More Quotes by James Murphy
Restaurants remind me of bands: there's lots of camaraderie, people work very closely together, very hard, and it's a bad job to pick if you want to make lots of money. Whether music or food, the reward always has to be because you love it.
I wouldn't say I'm a friend of David Byrne, but I guess I'm an acquaintance. I'm obviously an admirer, and we've met, but we don't call and chat about 'Breaking Bad' or anything.
I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.
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.
I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.