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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
Happy
Desire
Individual
Common
Happiness

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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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The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.
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I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.
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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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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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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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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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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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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.
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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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The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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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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Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.
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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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