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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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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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New York City
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Julian Fernando Casablancas
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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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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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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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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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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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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 over-think stuff a lot.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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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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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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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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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