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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
Simply
Purpose
Art
Life
Enhance
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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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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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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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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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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For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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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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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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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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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