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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
Life
Enhance
Image
Simply
Purpose
Art

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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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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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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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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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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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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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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I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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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.
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