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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.
Julian Casablancas
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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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New York City
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Julian Fernando Casablancas
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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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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 am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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