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I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

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
People
Rules
Study
Creative
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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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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with 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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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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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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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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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 don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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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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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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