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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
Desire
Individual
Common
Happiness
Happy

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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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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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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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 always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.
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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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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.
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For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
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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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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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