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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
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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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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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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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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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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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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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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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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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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