Richard D. James
Richard D. James
May refer to:...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth18 August 1971
clever emotional guitar
It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'
people despise knows
Can't really despise people you don't know.
artist people priorities
The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.
artist people sound
The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.
nice home giving
If you're making things at home, there is no structure - no end, no beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, "OK, that's the end of that period."
years track sound
If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.
thinking holy-grail fans
The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.
interesting sticks done
It's more interesting for me to stick things out anonymously - you get more of an honest reaction to what you've done.
lying kids should-have
I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.
successful america underdog
In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.
track erratic switching
I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.
interesting people projects
It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.
sound arrogant favourite
It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
cheer track people
You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.