Beck Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.”

“Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.”

“I had long hair when I was a teenager.”

“I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.”

“In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”