Beck

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

— Beck

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

— Beck

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

— Beck

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

— Beck

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

— Beck

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

— Beck

“These spider webs are my home now”

— Beck

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

— Beck

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.

— 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

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

— Beck

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

— 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

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But…

— Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me…

— Beck

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of…

— 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

It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's…

— Beck

When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I…

— Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and…

— Beck

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed…

— Beck

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…

— Beck

We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then…

— Beck

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

— Beck

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

My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the…

— 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

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

Maybe certain aspects of what I was doing were reacting against what was happening or what people said, too. That's something that…

— 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

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 trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

— Beck

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

— 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

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

— Beck

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

— Beck

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

— Beck

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

— Beck

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

— Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

— Beck