Julian Casablancas is a distinguished Danish-American songwriter and singer. He is the lead singer of American rock bands, ‘The Voidz,’ that was founded in 2013; and ‘The Strokes,’ that was founded in 1998. In 2009, he embarked on his solo career with album ‘Phrazes for the Young.’ He also founded ‘Cult Records,’ an independent record label in the same year. We have cuarted some quotes and thoughts by Julian Casablancas on wisdom, sense, vanity, guitar, confidence, experiment, clothes, eyes, wish, result, creative, fun, time, friendship, process, money, religion, life, etc. Read through the compilation of noteworthy sayings and thoughts by Julian Casablancas which have been excerpted from his songs, interviews, writings, thoughts, works, lyrics, and tweets.
I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer.
I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.
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If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
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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.
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.
No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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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I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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 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.
That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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.
No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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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.
I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.
For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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.
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.'
I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.
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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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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When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.
I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.
Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.
I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.
