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LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.
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I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.
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I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.
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There's kind of a limitless amount of things I want to do, and when the path seems to open, that's when I try to do a thing.
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I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.
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I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting Grammys. So getting a Grammy nomination wasn't bad, it just wasn't meaningful.
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I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.
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My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and you have to go on instinct.
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Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.
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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.
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I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.
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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.
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If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is in financial management.
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I started playing in my first band when I was 12. I like to date myself by saying I was in a New Age band when it wasn't ironic; it was actually called new wave because it was new.
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My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.
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I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.
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To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.
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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.
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As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.
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Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.
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I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
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I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.
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When I want to DJ what I think to be the best-sounding place in the world, I go to this place in Sapporo, Japan, called Precious Hall, which has kind of a custom sound system with a much lower ceiling and a smaller room.
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My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.
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I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.
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I don't prepare very well. I'm always sort of wrapped up in what I'm supposed to be doing in the moment, and then I suddenly appear someplace, and I'm really not prepared.
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I spent a good amount of time with David Bowie, and I was talking about getting the band back together. He said, 'Does it make you uncomfortable?' I said 'Yeah,', and he said, 'Good. It should. You should be uncomfortable.'
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The plan is to keep on putting out records until someone shows up and tells us to stop.
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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.
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I got a phone message from Janet Jackson saying, 'Hi, I love 'Losing My Edge', can you do me something funky and dirty like that?' I can't really do off-the-peg stuff, so I never called back.
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When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.
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With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.
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Making 'Sound of Silver' was very emotional at times, where I just hated making that record.
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I was someone who grew up obsessed with bands, how they were and how they treated one another, and how they treated fans.
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We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly.
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Those early years in New Jersey were amazing. We lived in a really small town with tons of kids my age. There were fields and woods and a creek - it was a pretty ideal place to be a little kid.
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DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres.
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I was always just blown away by David Bowie and how mannered the guy was willing to be. It was so far from what I imagined someone with my confidence to be capable of.
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