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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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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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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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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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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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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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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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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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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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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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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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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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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 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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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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