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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.
Beck
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Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: July 8
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There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.
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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 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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Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.
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I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.
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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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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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Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.
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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 did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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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 didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.
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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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Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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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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I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.
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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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