Beck Quotes

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Beck

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 8, 1970

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

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Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

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I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

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I had long hair when I was a teenager.

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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

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The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

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I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.

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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.

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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

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Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

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Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

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