Quotes by Julian Casablancas - Page 2

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Fall
Flow
Song
Songwriting
Traps
Wake Up
Wake
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The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Play
Sound
Strokes
Thrillers
Thriller
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There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Fun
Half Full
Play
Thinking
Bar
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When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Matter
Sam Cooke
Trying
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L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Vacation
Fourteen
Thinking
Tricks
Vortex
Weather
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I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
People Doing More
Communal
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I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Edward Scissorhands
Mad
Max
Thinking
Edward
Fine Line
Reference
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I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.
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The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.
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Quality
Goal
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L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Car
Laid Back
Needs
Seven
Towns
Spot
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The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Art
Happy Accidents
Hard Work
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It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Fire
Sitting
Years
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I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Eye
Mean
Thinking
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I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Good Person
No Idea
Fail
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When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Fun
Sick
Song
Writing
By The Time
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I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make yourself happy.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Confused
Make Yourself Happy
Trying
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I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Died
Different Ways
Night
Sleep
Thinking
Regular
Terrors
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For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Long
Long Time
Process
Solo
Strokes
Want
Time Long Process
Everyone Else
Filtering
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One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Songwriting
Sucks
Believing
Fact
Second
Suck
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Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Blow
Heroin
Party
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I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Bars
Manhattan
Pockets
Thinking
Corner
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In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Kids
Different
Moving
Suburbs
Big Thing
Cultures
Haircut
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A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Excitement
Genuine
Intense
Levels
People
Way
Best Music People
Hear Music
Receive
Stepped
Tour
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I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Encouragement
Kids
Dad
Discipline
Entitled
Spoil
Love Good Dad
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I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Athlete
Boston
Somewhere Else
Pro
Red Sox
Sox
Teams
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It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
People
Struggle
Thinking
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The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
War
Brooklyn
Changed
Elements
It Is What It Is
Manhattan
Moved
Ruined
Urban
Yeah
Zone
Element
War Zone
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If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Different
Song
Special
Bar
Music Song Feel
Vibe
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I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Bed
Certain
Littles
Perfect
Prefer
Gifts
Hutch
Nook
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I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Generations
People
Race
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It's that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you're in a car, at a party or alone at home or in bed and you hear this song and it just hits you so strong - that’s what we aim for.
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Party
Song
Strong
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If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Choices
People
Thinking
Cool People Doing
Option
Equally
Sellout
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I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.
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People
Stuff
Want
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I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.
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Drinking
Drug
Mean
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Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Guy
Scrutiny
Shoes
Stuff
Wearing
Jacket
Onstage
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I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Alcohol
Needs
Site
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I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Prefer
Check
Talented
Ideal
Work Hard
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I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Faces
Voice
Your Side
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In L.A., it's so sunny out all the time that even though I'm working all day I have this illusion that I'm on some kind of vacation. New York is so condensed and exciting but you stay there too long and all that turns into anxiety a little bit. It's nice to escape here and there.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Vacation
Anxiety
Long
Nice
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I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Humming
Singers
Strokes
Always Me Will
Device
Jar
Themes
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Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Kings
Decision
Suffering
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When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Chicks
Clothes
Gigs
Giving
Real
Real Life
Strokes
Costume
Wearing
Onstage
Talked
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Pretty much the only goal I've had since the beginning, which I still have, is just to get better, work hard, focus, and everything else will just be a bonus. As long as I'm satisfied, and I think we're getting better with every song compared to the last, then I'm satisfied and that's all I want. If we don't achieve that, then I'll be disappointed.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Hard Work
Song
Thinking
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