Quotes by James Mercer - Page 2

I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Movie
Blue
Buying
Clockwork
Love Is
Melancholy
Orange
Cool Love Work
Betty
French
Love Cool Work
Guess
Soundtrack
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For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Romantic
Someday
Time Music Myself
Admit
Dude
Guitars
Longest
Longest Time
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My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Hate
Political
Rhetoric
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For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Jealous
Careers
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I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a comeback. My brother in law is an example- before he was listening to some country music, even some of that awful nu-metal stuff , but there weren't many options really.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Brother
Country
Real
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I remember being in high school, and you had to draw those lines and define yourself. I don't think when I was in high school I would have been willing to admit that I liked the Shins. I was into TSOL and Black Flag. I probably would have listened to the Shins secretly in my bedroom.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Bedroom
Lines
Admit
Define
Draw
Flag
Secretly
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The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Insecurity
Inspire
Negative
People
Seeing
Connection
Deal
Endured
Injuries
Insecurities
Inspires
Realize
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I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant, and then walk from there to another nice place - this is, I guess, because of really great dates that I've had with my wife here in Portland.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Car
Bunch
Driving
Perfect
Portland
Dates
Guess
Walk
Ideally
Involve
Restaurant
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If you're 14 and you're skinny, you can't be on the football team, basically. It's just not even really possible. But skating is something that you can do that gets that athletic urge satisfied, but you get to do it on your own terms. You can be as ballsy as you want to be. It was perfect for me.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Football
Perfect
Team
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There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive that gives you a lot of room for unique and individual expression. Whatever you're interested in can become something you kind of own in your group of skater friends.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Expression
Thinking
Unique
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I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.
James Mercer / Guitarist
Girl
Football
Player
School
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