Beck Quotes

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
Beck

Experience, Someone, Making

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck

True, Enough, Put

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.
Beck

Nature, Art, Attitude

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
Beck

Life, Love, Try

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck

Time, Purpose, Step

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

Life, Work, Time

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

Used, Face, Fall

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
Beck

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
Beck

I didn't want to do something typical.
Beck

I had long hair when I was a teenager.
Beck

Long, Hair, Teenager

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
Beck

Write, Studio, Spot

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

Whole, Generation, Mission

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck

Music, Play, Keep

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

Different, Studio, Throwing

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
Beck

Hard, Seeing, Creating

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Beck

Hard, Artist, Drive

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

Music, Pressure

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Beck

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
Beck

Work, Time, Long

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

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.
Beck

Time, Learning, Road

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
Beck

Done, Thought, While

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.
Beck

Bad, Pretty, Try

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
Beck

Music, Time, Good

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Nationality: American

Born: July 8, 1970

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