Beck Quotes:- Beck (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style and became known for creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres. Beck has musically encompassed folk, funk, soul, hip-hop, electronic, alternative rock, country, and psychedelia. He has released 14 studio albums (three of which were released on indie labels), as well as several non-album singles and a book of sheet music.
Inspirational Beck Quotes and Sayings
“Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.”
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“There are more things that I’d like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.”
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“To me, ‘rock star’ conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.”
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“There are 40 or 50 songs that nobody’s heard that I’ve done in between albums. There’s a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that’s never been released.”
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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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“I would love to do an electronic record. There’s just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.”
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“Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don’t really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.”
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“In the studio, I’m always throwing people on different instruments.”
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“I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.”
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“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.”
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“I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn’t something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.”
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“I did that Grammys thing – I did a little freeform poem.”
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Famous Beck Quotes and Sayings
“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 weirdly.”
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“In the recording, you’re trying to make something work sonically – getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound – and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn’t sound as cool.”
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“What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It’s not working. Something is going to have to give.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I love British humor. It’s just so – surreal.”
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“I didn’t go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.”
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“I hadn’t done much rapping in a while. I really wasn’t sure I was going to do that anymore. For a couple of years, I thought I was done with that. It wasn’t really required of me.”
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“I’ve personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s is so uncompelling because so much is lost in translation.”
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“The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.”
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“Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.”
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Best Beck Quotes
“We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they’re like, I don’t know about this one.”
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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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“I sat out a few years because I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.”
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“I’m just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it’s not usually on purpose.”
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“As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.”
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“I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.”
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“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?”
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“I had long hair when I was a teenager.”
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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.”
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“When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.”
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“In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.”
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Top Quotes by Beck
“In the past, it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I’m not technically a rapper, whatever that means.”
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“It’s really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.”
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“No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.”
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“When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the ’50s/’60s generation was so dominant.”
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“There’s never any pressure on the music having to be something.”
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“Something just happens when you’re making a record, where certain things start to come out. It’s just something in the air.”
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“I didn’t want to do something typical.”
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“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 on your face. You could completely blow it.”
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“I didn’t want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.”
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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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“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.”
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“I’ve never been able to relate to apathy. I’ve always been doing stuff, being in action, making music, or working just to get by.”
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“You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There’s only so much you can do with one record.”
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