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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Julian Casablancas

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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
Common
Happiness
Happy
Desire
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.
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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.
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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.
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Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).
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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.
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I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make yourself happy.
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When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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