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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

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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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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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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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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 thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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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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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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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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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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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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I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.
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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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