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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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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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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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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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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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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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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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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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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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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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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