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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.
Julian Casablancas
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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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