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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
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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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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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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.
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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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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 a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.
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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 mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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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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A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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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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