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• I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional.

  Beck

  Thinking, Littles, Ends

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

  Beck

  Trying, Would Be, Easy

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

  Beck

  Years, Trying, Band

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

  Beck

  Beautiful, Bentley, Strings

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• I didn't want to do something typical.

  Beck

  Typical, Want

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• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  Beck

  Long, Periods, Shorthand

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• I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

  Beck

  Years, Records, Always Working

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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• Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

  Beck

  Technology, Guitar, Acoustics

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

  Beck

  People, Collaboration, Band

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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• I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.

  Beck

  Believe, Years, People

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.

  Beck

  Real, People, Records

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

  Beck

  Song, Giving, Cartoon

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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• Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.

  Beck

  Song, Eight, Track

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.

  Beck

  Song, Done, Music Is

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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• Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

  Beck

  Thinking, Trying, Way

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

  Beck

  Generations, World, Cliche

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• I had long hair when I was a teenager.

  Beck

  Teenager, Hair, Long

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• I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

  Beck

  Baby, Loser, Kill Me

  Song: Loser, Album: Mellow Gold, 1994

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• I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.

  Beck

  Mother, Children, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

  Beck

  Thinking, Trying, Boring

  "New Again: Beck". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

  Beck

  Curiosity, Culture, Taste

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

  Beck

  Phones, People, Trying

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• [Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

  Beck

  Attitude

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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

  Beck

  British, Surreal

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• I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

  Beck

  Years, Lasts, Songwriting

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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