Beck Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.”

“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.”

“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 weird.”

“Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.”

“I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.”

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

“I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.”

“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.”

“The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.”

“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.”