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Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.

~Jim James

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I think we're going to look back on the Internet in 50 to 100 years as a big mistake.

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We should always be trying to tear down the walls and say, 'I'm no different than you.'

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I think anyone who knows the audio process knows what mixing and mastering is.

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I'd write songs like 'One Big Holiday,' and we'd play it and say, 'It's too heavy for 'At Dawn.' Let's save it for the next one.' We had more time for that, but when you mix a song, the general rule of thumb for us is a song a day or usually a day and a half.

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You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But you should sleep on it and come back in the morning and make sure.

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The thing I take great comfort in and what I think is cool about the process is that I know in my heart that I gave it everything I had back then. That helps me sleep at night. I still feel proud and happy.

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'What's Going On' is one of the greatest albums ever made. I definitely wasn't aiming to make my 'What's Going On,' you know what I mean? That album is definitely deep in my DNA. I've probably listened to that more than maybe any other album ever in my entire life.

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It's a joy, the process itself, even instrumentally, playing and constructing music. It's just so beautiful to me.

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For a lot of people, life's been pretty good. There hasn't been true terror right in your face.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 27th, 1978

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