Beck Quotes

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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…
• Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
• 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…
• 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.
• I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things…
• There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face.…
• Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
• As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
• Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.
• Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
• Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines…
• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
• I didn't want to do something typical.
• I had long hair when I was a teenager.
• I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
• I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
• I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
• I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

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