Quotes by Julian Casablancas

About Julian Casablancas:

Julian Fernando Casablancas is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band The Strokes. In addition to his work with The Strokes, Casablancas has led a solo career during the band's hiatus, releasing the album Phrazes for the Young on November 3, 2009.
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

Julian Casablancas

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

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A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

Julian Casablancas

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Julian Casablancas

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Julian Casablancas

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

Julian Casablancas

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

Julian Casablancas

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

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There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Julian Casablancas

I over-think stuff a lot.

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I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

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Birth is a beautiful thing.

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I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

Julian Casablancas

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

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L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

Julian Casablancas

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

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I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

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I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are ju...

Julian Casablancas

Author Bio

  • NameJulian Casablancas
  • Descriptionlead singer and frontman for The Strokes
  • BornAugust 23, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Songwriter; Singer-songwriter