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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 don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.
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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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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 you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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 a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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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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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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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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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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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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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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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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 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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