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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

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Beck
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: July 8
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I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.
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It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.
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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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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.
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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 do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.
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I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
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When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.
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There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.
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I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
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Art is the child of Nature yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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You can't write if you can't relate.
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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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I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.
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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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I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this, it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.
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