Words matter. These are the best Julian Casablancas Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
No matter who I’m talking to, I always talk like I’m doing an interview.
People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn’t like that.
Songwriting is hard – it’s so easy to fall into the same traps. It’s not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
New York is in my soul.
I have to say, I’m good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I’ll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed – a little gift hutch, if you prefer.
Sometimes I’ve sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
The Strokes can play anything. They could play ‘Thriller,’ and it would just sound like ‘Thriller’ as played by the Strokes.
The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
I mean, I guess you could say I’m a bit of a perfectionist.
I’m not a pop song lyric writer. I can’t just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
For a long time I didn’t want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
If you’re in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it’s a very special thing.
I over-think stuff a lot.
The problem with touring isn’t the traveling and the shows, it’s the vegetal state you get into.
Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
If it doesn’t start with you, it dies with you.
Religion is never the problem; it’s the people who use it to gain power.
Boarding school didn’t feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
I enjoy songwriting. It’s slow-motion improvising.
I don’t really care about clothes, but it’s about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don’t know how to be creative.
I would prefer it if people thought that I didn’t work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, ‘Check out this song – what do you think?’ That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I’m just truly talented.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we’re doing more of a communal thing.
One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that’s a fact.
I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
