As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate. — 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
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
I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years. — Beck Copy Share Image
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces… — 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
When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a… — Beck Copy Share Image
Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But… — Beck Copy Share Image
Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to… — 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
I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music,… — 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
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'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be… — Beck Copy Share Image
There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About… — 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've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the… — 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
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 repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had… — 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
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
Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically. — Beck Copy Share Image
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing… — 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
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
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 Image
It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be. — Beck Copy Share Image
Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead — Beck Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. — Beck Copy Share Image
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 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 doing something… — Beck Copy Share Image
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