Julian Casablancas Quotes

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Julian Casablancas

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 23, 1978

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.

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Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

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I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

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Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

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The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

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One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact.

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The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

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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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Birth is a beautiful thing.

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I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

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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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In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'

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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

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Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

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