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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Musician
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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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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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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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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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 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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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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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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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 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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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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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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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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I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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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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