Quotes by Beck

About Beck:

Beck Hansen is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his lo-fi, sonically experimental style, and he became well known for creating musical collages of a wide range of styles. His later recordings encompass folk, funk, soul, hip hop, alternative rock, country and psychedelia. He has released 12 studio albums, as well as several non-album singles and a book of sheet music.
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I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most.

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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was wri...

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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject mat...

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The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

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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.

Beck

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

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

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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.

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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

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I didn't want to do something typical.

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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.

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

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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.

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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

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I had long hair when I was a teenager.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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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Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

Beck

Author Bio

  • NameBeck
  • DescriptionAmerican Musician (b.1970)
  • AliasesBeck Hansen; Bek David Campbell; BALGARSKI
  • BornJuly 8, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Singer-songwriter; Street Artist; Composer; Songwriter
  • AwardsGrammy Award For Album Of The Year