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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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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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Music
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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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I over-think stuff a lot.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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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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I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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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 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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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'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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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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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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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 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 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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