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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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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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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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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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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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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in 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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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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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make yourself happy.
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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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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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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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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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