James Vincent McMorrow Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.”

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

“You just wake up and make music.”

“I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened to as many singers as I could. Like, when I got to about 19/20, I started listening to singers. I normally just listened to bands. Now I listen to a lot of old singers, not a lot of new stuff.”

“I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.”

“I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere.”

“I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like these folk kind of guitars. You can pick 'em, you can strum 'em - they're quite good.”