Julian Casablancas Quotes

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• Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

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  Heart, Singing

  Song: Long Island Blues, 2009

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• Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

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  Art, Purpose, Art Is

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

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  People, Use, Gains

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• Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

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  Happiness, Happy, Desire

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

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  Greed, Injustice, Currents

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

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  Trying, Dozen, Way

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• The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

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  Art, Hard Work, Happy Accidents

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

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  Lazy, Illusion, Recluse

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• Forgive them even if they are not sorry

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  Sorry, Forgiving, Not Sorry

  Song: 11th Dimension, Album: Phrazes for the Young, 2009

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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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  Thinking, People, Creative

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

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  Winning, Wish, Wish You

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• I over-think stuff a lot.

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  Thinking, Stuff

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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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  Clothes, Giving, Care

  Interview with Will Welch, www.gq.com. October 20, 2009.

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• A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

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  Band, Way

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• I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.

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  People, Want, Stuff

  "Group Therapy" by Jay McInerney, nymag.com.

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• No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

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  Talking, Matter, Interviews

  "The Strokes: Elegantly Wasted". Interview with Neil Strauss, www.rollingstone.com. November 13, 2003.

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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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  Years, Fire, Sitting

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

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  Thinking

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• The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

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  Simple, Unexpected, Solutions

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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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  Song, Fun, Writing

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

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  Thinking, People, Privileged

  "Julian Casablancas: 'What would you like me to say?'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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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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  War, Manhattan, Elements

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• I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make yourself happy.

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  Confused, Trying, Make Yourself Happy

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• Just slow it down enough to enjoy the ride.

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  Enough, Enjoy

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

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  Vanity, Common Sense, Common

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