Julian Casablancas Quotes:
A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
Julian Casablancas
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.
Julian Casablancas
Birth is a beautiful thing.
Julian Casablancas
Boarding school didn’t feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
Julian Casablancas
But it can be hard to experiment when you’re in a band.
Julian Casablancas
Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
Julian Casablancas
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Compared to people in Africa, I think we’ve all had privileged upbringings.
Julian Casablancas
Source: Los Angeles Times
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Julian Casablancas
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.
Julian Casablancas
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
Julian Casablancas
I am a fan of ‘SNL’ and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
Julian Casablancas
I enjoy songwriting. It’s slow-motion improvising.
Julian Casablancas
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.
Julian Casablancas
I over-think stuff a lot.
Julian Casablancas
I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what’s going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person – and I fail.
Julian Casablancas
I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don’t know how to be creative.
Julian Casablancas
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.
Julian Casablancas
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.
Julian Casablancas
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.
Julian Casablancas
If it doesn’t start with you, it dies with you.
Julian Casablancas
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.
Julian Casablancas
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.
Julian Casablancas
I’m happy to feed the illusion that I’m a lazy recluse.
Julian Casablancas
I’m not a pop song lyric writer. I can’t just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
Julian Casablancas
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.’
Julian Casablancas
It’s not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
Julian Casablancas
L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you’re on vacation, even when you’re working fourteen hours a day.
Julian Casablancas
L.A.’s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It’s so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don’t need a car.
Julian Casablancas
Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
Julian Casablancas
My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
Julian Casablancas
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