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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

Topics: About Appropriate Come Digest Eight Few Find Just Later Life Long Long Time Out Sometimes Take Things Time Took Way Work Writing Years

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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.

~Beck

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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

Topics: Doing Get Going Half Home Keep Keep Going Other Process Realize Records Then Things Tour Want Wow Year Years You

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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.

~Beck

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There's 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.

~Beck

Topics: Albums Been Between Change Done Evolution Heard Never Nobody Released Sea Songs Whole

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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

~Beck

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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.

~Beck

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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.

~Beck

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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.

~Beck

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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

~Beck

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: July 8th, 1970

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