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Beck

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

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 about?

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.

— Beck attitude

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

— Beck politics

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 have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

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

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

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

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

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

— Beck thought

I didn't want to do something typical.

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

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

— Beck change

The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

— Beck people

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.

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.

— Beck influence

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.

— Beck people

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

— Beck people

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

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