Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes

Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

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• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

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• You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.

  

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• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

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• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

  

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• That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  

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• I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

  

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• In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

  

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• Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

  

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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

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• How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

  

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• Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

  

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• I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.

  

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• I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

  

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• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

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• Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.

  

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• What I said to Donald Trump was that what may work in generating enthusiasm or passion during elections may be different than what will work in terms of unifying the country and gaining the trust even of those who didn't support him.

  

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• When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

  

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• In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

  

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• I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

  

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• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
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