Torya James Vincent Quotes

#1. I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#2. My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#3. It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it? #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#4. Watching the news inspires me to keep going and reminds me why I should never complain. I'm inspired by those who don't let others define them: Martin Luther King Jr., James Dean, Vincent Van Gogh, Hillary Clinton, Tennessee Williams, director Steve McQueen. They've all changed the conversation by making their voices heard. #Quote by Robert Piper

#5. I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#6. You just wake up and make music. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#7. I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#8. The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#9. You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#10. 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. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#11. When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped. #Quote by Stephen Vincent Benet

#12. Sometimes my hands they don't feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#13. HYSTERICAL HISTORY Bumping into Vincent O'Neil makes me think about what Uncle Frankie said. I need new material for Boston, not Vincent's stale and stinky fart jokes from The Big Book of Butt Bugles and Blampfs. So I keep my eyes open for new concepts to work out as I go to history class that afternoon. We're supposed to give a presentation on our favorite president. I chose Millard Fillmore. Why? Because nobody else will. Plus, his name is funny. Who knows? Maybe I'll get a whole bit out of him for Boston. I roll to the front of the class and prop a portrait of President Fillmore on the flip-chart easel. "Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth president of the United States. Born in January 1800, he was named after a duck. No, I'm sorry. That was his brother Mallard Fillmore. Millard Fillmore was the last member of the Whig Party to ever hold the office of president. Probably because they all wore wigs. #Quote by James Patterson

#14. I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#15. Said Red Molly to James that's a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like
Said James to Red Molly, my hat's off to you
It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952
And I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favourite colour scheme
And he pulled her on behind
And down to Boxhill they did ride

Said James to Red Molly, here's a ring for your right hand
But I'll tell you in earnest I'm a dangerous man
I've fought with the law since I was seventeen
I robbed many a man to get my Vincent machine
Now I'm 21 years, I might make 22
And I don't mind dying, but for the love of you
And if fate should break my stride
Then I'll give you my Vincent to ride

Come down, come down, Red Molly, called Sergeant McRae
For they've taken young James Adie for armed robbery
Shotgun blast hit his chest, left nothing inside
Oh, come down, Red Molly to his dying bedside
When she came to the hospital, there wasn't much left
He was running out of road, he was running out of breath
But he smiled to see her cry
And said I'll give you my Vincent to ride

Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
Beats a 52 Vincent and a red headed girl
Now Nortons and Indians and Greeveses won't do
They don't have a soul like a Vincent 52
He reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys
He said I've got #Quote by Richard L. Thompson

#16. With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#17. At the end of the day music is a grind. You're constantly working at it and even with playing shows as well. If your schedule isn't planned right it could really throw things off, but honestly at the end of the day its incredible being able to go to so many places. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#18. I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#19. Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but trusting in my self the way I trusted that if I were to sit at a piano for two hours and I was going learn something, that trust I'd put in myself really helped me get through it. For five to six months I just wrote songs and believed they would turn out to be things I could be proud of and be happy. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#20. I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#21. I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#22. I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be a doctor would study medicine. You have to know your craft and by doing so I had to make sure to ignore what people were thinking as well. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#23. Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors
somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating
none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries. #Quote by James A. Michener

#24. 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. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#25. Vincent laughed. "No, you still need to look like a Helian."
"So I should burn everything to a crisp?"
"Well, that would definitely get your mother's attention, but I think that she's looking for something more sophisticated and less ... scary. #Quote by Heather James

#26. I like working by myself. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#27. All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#28. I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#29. Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern parents who were stationed there by the telegraph company. He had attended West Point and he thought he knew something about warfare, having served under General Pope in his long and futile struggle against General Stonewall Jackson. Those men were fighters who would face the enemy till the last bullet was fired, but neither would participate in such a slaughter.
Reed had had his troops in position. He was quite prepared to rush in for the kill, and he had positioned himself so that he would be in the vanguard when his men made their charge against the guns of the young braves threatening the left flank. But when he saw that the enemy had no weapons, that even their bows and arrows were not at hand, and that he was supposed to chop down little girls and old women, he rebelled on the spot, taking counsel with no one but his own conscience. #Quote by James A. Michener

#30. I'm learning on the guitar all the time. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#31. 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. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#32. I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#33. 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. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#34. 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. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

#35. My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out. #Quote by James Vincent McMorrow