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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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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 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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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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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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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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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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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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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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