Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. — Beck Copy Share Image
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate. — Beck Copy Share Image
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record. — Beck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me… — Beck Copy Share Image
Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement. — Beck Copy Share Image
It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should… — Beck Copy Share Image
It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's… — Beck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and… — Beck Copy Share Image
We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then… — Beck Copy Share Image
There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most… — Beck Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time,… — Beck Copy Share Image
I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this… — Beck Copy Share Image
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… — Beck Copy Share Image
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.… — Beck Copy Share Image
There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go… — Beck Copy Share Image
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a… — Beck Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody… — Beck Copy Share Image
I think I gave indications early on that mine wasn't just going to be a commercial, er, career. If that were the… — Beck Copy Share Image
Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear… — Beck Copy Share Image
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where… — Beck Copy Share Image
I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch,… — Beck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing. — Beck Copy Share Image
I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years. — Beck Copy Share Image
There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of… — Beck Copy Share Image
There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to… — Beck Copy Share Image
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… — Beck Copy Share Image
The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set… — Beck Copy Share Image
What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs.… — Beck Copy Share Image
Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're… — Beck Copy Share Image
I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into… — Beck Copy Share Image
There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having… — Beck Copy Share Image
There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production. — Beck Copy Share
It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be. — Beck Copy Share
Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead — Beck Copy Share
I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and… — Beck Copy Share
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear… — Beck Copy Share
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… — Beck Copy Share
I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear… — Beck Copy Share
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. — Beck Copy Share
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… — Beck Copy Share
Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something… — Beck Copy Share
“There's a destination,a little up the road. From the habitations and the towns we know. A place we saw the lights turn low. The… — Beck Copy Share
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate. — Beck Copy Share
With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking. — Beck Copy Share
