James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

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• I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

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  "James Vincent McMorrow: 'I like my own musical company'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Hands, Needs, Sometimes

  "Post Tropical" by Kyle Kramer, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2014.

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• I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

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  School, Play, New Things

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• I have a vision for everything that I make, but... I'm not that considerate about what I do. I do whatever is in my head and how it ends up tends to be the thing that it's supposed to be. It was never a premeditated decision.

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  Decision, Vision, Ends

  "James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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• I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

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  Home, College, Men

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• I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in the course of a day, hell probably not even a week. My mind is always going to change and my emotional state will also change on a daily basis.

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  Song, Writing, Emotional

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• I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

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  Ambitious, Want, Mediocre

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• I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

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  Real, Want, Way

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

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  Together, Natural, Feels

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• You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

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  Couple, Heart, Phones

  "I like my own musical company". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 04, 2014.

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• My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

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  Records, Firsts, My Favorite

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• I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be a doctor would study medicine. You have to know your craft and by doing so I had to make sure to ignore what people were thinking as well.

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  Taken, Thinking, Doctors

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• It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

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  Artist, People, Trying

  "James Vincent McMorrow: 'I like my own musical company'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

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  Ideas, People, Trying

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• I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

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  Guy, Musical, Finding Yourself

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• I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

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  Growing Up, Thinking, Car

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• I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.

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  Coffee, Nuts, Traveled

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• I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Guitar

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• I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

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  Writing, Kind, Notepads

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• Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

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  Beach, Life Is Short, Sound

  "James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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• You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

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  Chance, Impression, One Chance

  "James Vincent McMorrow: 'I like my own musical company'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.

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  Kids, Dublin, Overwhelmed

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• I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

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  College, Guitar, Play

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• I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

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  Expectations, London, Moved

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• I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

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  Attention, Deficit, Distracted

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