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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.

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
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Music
Need
Right
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Something
Good
Offer
Quality

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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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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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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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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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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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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.
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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 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 think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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