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
I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off… — 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
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 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 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'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
I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live. — Beck Copy Share Image
I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002. — Beck Copy Share Image
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm… — Beck Copy Share Image
I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For 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
The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year… — 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
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
Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first… — Beck Copy Share Image
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming. — Beck Copy Share Image
You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on… — Beck Copy Share Image
I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children… — 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