List of Beck Quotes

I Think It's Interesting Being American, The Expectations For An American Guy, And The Image That Has To Be Projected. 'oh, I Can't Wear Pink,' That Kind Of Stuff. There's None Of That In Europe.

I Would Love To Do An Electronic Record. There's Just So Much To See And Do And Try. And Life Goes By.

Sea Change Was So Specific. From The Beginning It Was Set What It Was Going To Be. All The Other Ideas That I Had At The Time I Had To Put To The Side.

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?

Every Band I Knew Or Played With Had Flyers And Properly-recorded Demos And Contacts; I Couldn't Even Get A Gig.

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.

You Can't Please Everybody, Man.

I Have For Four Years Now Been Ringing The Bell. Economic Holocaust Is Coming. Economic Day Of Reckoning Is Coming.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've Personally Reached The Point Where The Sound Of Mp3s Are So Uncompelling, Because So Much Is Lost In Translation.

No One Should Drive A Hard Bargain With An Artist.

Most Of My Early Records Were Not Cohesive At All, Just Collections Of Demos Recorded In Different Years. 'odelay' Was The First Time I Actually Got To Go In The Studio And Record A Piece Of Music In A Continuous Linear Fashion, Although That Was Written Over A Year.

I Did That Grammys Thing - I Did A Little Freeform Poem.

It's So Easy To Criticize Your Own Time, And I See That As A Problem, Even For Myself, As A Listener.

You Just Want To Go Back To Those 70s Albums. Even A Lot Of The 90s Indie Records Were Still Done On Tape, And You Hear The Difference.

It's Hard To Make Music Knowing That It's Not Going To Be Received By The Listener In The Way That It Should Be.

When I Pull Out Vinyl - Which Isn't That Often Anymore - It's Undeniable That I Get A Different Feeling. There's A Different Physiology Happening Between The Sound Waves And The Body That Doesn't Happen With Music Playing Off The Computer.