James Vincent McMorrow Quotes
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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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“I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.”
— James Vincent McMorrow
I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.
— James Vincent McMorrow
My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer ... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family.
— James Vincent McMorrow
I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
— James Vincent McMorrow
“You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice.”
— James Vincent McMorrow
“I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.”
— James Vincent McMorrow
I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.
— James Vincent McMorrow
“I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.”
— James Vincent McMorrow
I'm learning on the guitar all the time.
— James Vincent McMorrow
“The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.”
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.
— James Vincent McMorrow
“I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.”
— James Vincent McMorrow
I like working by myself.
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— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.
— James Vincent McMorrow
“I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.”
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.
— James Vincent McMorrow
“The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.”
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
“You just wake up and make music.”
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
“Sometimes my hands they don't feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.”
— James Vincent McMorrow
I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.
— James Vincent McMorrow
Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
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.
— James Vincent McMorrow
— James Vincent McMorrow
I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.
— James Vincent McMorrow
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