Beck

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

— Beck

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

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

— Beck

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

— Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

— Beck

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

— Beck

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

— Beck

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

— Beck

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I…

— Beck

There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and…

— Beck

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces…

— Beck

Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once…

— Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying…

— Beck

To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the…

— Beck

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes…

— Beck

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see…

— Beck

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a…

— Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version,…

— Beck

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch,…

— Beck

You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on…

— Beck

I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to…

— Beck

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear…

— Beck

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where…

— Beck

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first…

— Beck

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

— Beck

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

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

— Beck

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

— Beck

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

— Beck

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

— Beck

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

— Beck

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

— Beck

“I don't love you because you're beautiful, you're beautiful because I love you.”

— Beck

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

— Beck

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

— Beck

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

— Beck

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

— Beck

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

— Beck

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

— Beck

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

— Beck