I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years. — Beck 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 Copy Share Image
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose. — Beck One step at a time Copy Share Image
It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be. — 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. — Beck Art Copy Share Image
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying… — Beck Expectations 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
To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the… — Beck Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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 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 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
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
When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed… — Beck Capitalism 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 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
When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I… — Beck Copy Share Image
There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and… — 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
The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer.… — 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
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
I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I… — Beck American guys 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 Bands Copy Share Image
There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having… — Beck Copy Share Image
There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are… — 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
When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching… — Beck Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit… — Beck Abuse 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
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
Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that… — Beck Change Copy Share Image
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs.… — Beck Dog Copy Share Image
“There's a destination,a little up the road. From the habitations and the towns we know. A place we saw the lights turn… — Beck Destination 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… — Beck Dichotomy Copy Share Image