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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

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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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Life
Enhance

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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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I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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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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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.
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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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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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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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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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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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