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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.

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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
Thinking
Arrive
Closer
Satisfaction
Fully
Never
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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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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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 think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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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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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with 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 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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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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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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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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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