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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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Beck
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: July 8
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In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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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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I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.
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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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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 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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I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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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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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 didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.
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