"Nobody onstage can hear anything the audience can't hear. No click tracks, no guides, nothing can be heard onstage that isn't going to the front of the house.
"If it's a synthesizer you have to make that sound happen onstage with a synth.
"If it's an organic sound it absolutely cannot be put on a sampler.
"No 'feeling it'
"No sunglasses.
"No rocking out.
"No improvising.
"No noodling.
"No psyching up the crowd.
"No pretending you're cool. I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool I can't control that. But no wearing the rock-and-roll hat.
"Volume. Volume. Volume. Volume onstage. We like it to sound uniform, even and loud as fuck."
- James Murphy to Sasha Frere Jones in the New Yorker (May 10, 2010 edition)
"If it's a synthesizer you have to make that sound happen onstage with a synth.
"If it's an organic sound it absolutely cannot be put on a sampler.
"No 'feeling it'
"No sunglasses.
"No rocking out.
"No improvising.
"No noodling.
"No psyching up the crowd.
"No pretending you're cool. I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool I can't control that. But no wearing the rock-and-roll hat.
"Volume. Volume. Volume. Volume onstage. We like it to sound uniform, even and loud as fuck."
- James Murphy to Sasha Frere Jones in the New Yorker (May 10, 2010 edition)
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