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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.

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
Music
Vibe
Feel
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Bars
Different
Kinds
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Special
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Song
Things
Comes
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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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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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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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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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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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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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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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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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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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When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.
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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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