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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

Julian Casablancas

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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
Ashamed
Leaves
Unless
Friend

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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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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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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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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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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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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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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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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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 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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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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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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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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 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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