James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

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

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

What we understand to be profoundness, or importance, it changes. It should change. It should be this moment where you cannot believe that equalled grandness or importance.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

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

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

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

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

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

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.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

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

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

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.

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

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.