Julian Casablancas Quotes

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Julian Casablancas

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 23, 1978

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

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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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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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A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

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There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

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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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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

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I over-think stuff a lot.

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I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

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I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

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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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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

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I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.

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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

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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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I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

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The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

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