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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to do something typical.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had long hair when I was a teenager.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
- Envied
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
- Action Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
- Walk
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
- Puzzle
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
- Half Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
- Different Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020