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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
Julian Casablancas
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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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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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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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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 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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The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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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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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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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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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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 think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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