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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
Unexpected
Solutions
Simple
Often
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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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You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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 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 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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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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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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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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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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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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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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 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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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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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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