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Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.
Beck
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Beck
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: July 8
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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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I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.
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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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Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead
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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 never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
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