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I didn't want to do something typical.
Beck
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Beck
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: July 8
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I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.
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I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.
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You can't write if you can't relate.
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My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead
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For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.
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Originally, the lyrics to Girl were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows.
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I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.
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Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.
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It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.
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Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.
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