To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the… — Beck Above Copy Share Image
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see… — Beck Action Copy Share Image
Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once… — Beck Collages 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 Behinds Copy Share Image
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something… — Beck Judgment Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I… — Beck Attention Copy Share Image
There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most… — Beck Attempts Copy Share Image
You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking… — Beck Certain 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 Age 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… — Beck Art Copy Share Image
In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe… — Beck Back 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 Another 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 Careers 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 Collections Copy Share Image
I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for… — Beck Computer 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 About 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 Background music Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare. — Beck Different Copy Share Image
Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement. — Beck Arrangements Copy Share Image
It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener. — Beck Critic Copy Share Image
“I don't love you because you're beautiful, you're beautiful because I love you.” — Beck Beauty Copy Share Image
Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig. — Beck Band Copy Share Image
As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact. — Beck Computer Copy Share Image
I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live. — Beck Band Copy Share Image
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. — Beck Band Copy Share Image
I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's… — Beck Bits 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 Body Copy Share Image
You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on… — Beck Albums Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time,… — Beck Else 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 Any Copy Share Image
I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this… — Beck Assignments 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… — Beck Overflowing Copy Share Image
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They… — Beck Airplane 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 Clock Copy Share Image
I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch,… — Beck Bigs 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 Equipment Copy Share Image
