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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

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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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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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It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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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 always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.
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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 thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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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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I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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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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 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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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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