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• I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

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  Thinking, Sound, Tape

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things.

  Beck

  Media, Games, Ideas

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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• There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

  Beck

  Song, Detours, Emotion

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

  Beck

  Technology, Tools, Use

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

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  Remember You, Remembers You, Guitar

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

  Beck

  Artist, Helping Others, People

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• I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

  Beck

  Song, Thinking, Winning

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

  Beck

  Backgrounds, Background Music

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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• There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

  Beck

  Song, Artist, Years

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

  Beck

  Years, Holocaust, Bells

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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.

  Beck

  Winning, Expectations, Praying

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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.

  Beck

  Growing Up, Lines, Comedy

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 02, 2010.

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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.

  Beck

  Band, Gigs, Flyers

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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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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  Party, Welcome, Wonder

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• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

  Beck

  Writing, Eight, 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.

  Beck

  Trying, Records

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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.

  Beck

  Mother, Art, Nature

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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.

  Beck

  Mp3, Sound, Lost

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2012.

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• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  Beck

  Art, Design, Should

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• There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?

  Beck

  People, Want, Franklin

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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  Airplane, Play, Japan

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• When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.

  Beck

  Mean, Names, Socialism

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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.

  Beck

  Home, Years, Records

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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.

  Beck

  Starting Over, Over You, Musician

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• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  Beck

  Littles

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