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" I had long hair when I was a teenager. "
Beck
Teenager
Hair
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" Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out. "
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" I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. "
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I Think
" 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. "
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Mother
" I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record. "
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" I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem. "
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" As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate. "
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" I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out. "
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" 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? "
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" No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. "
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" 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. "
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" I didn't want to do something typical. "
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Something
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" Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way. "
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Always
" 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. "
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" Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. "
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