74+ Beck Quotes On Cbt, Death And Eclectic

Beck is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is well known for his genre-defying style of music which combines elements of hip-hop, funk, soul, psychedelia, folk, and alternative rock. His 1994 album Mellow Gold was his breakthrough and he has since released 13 studio albums and won numerous awards including two Grammys. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Beck on life, cbt, death.

Top 10 Beck Quotes

1. Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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?
8. Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.
9. I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
10. Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows.

Beck Short Quotes

• I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.
• The limitations are limitless.
• I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.
• I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.
• I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.
• I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.
• As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.
• Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.
• I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.
• You can't please everybody, man.

Beck Quotes About Artist

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

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever. — Beck

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. — Beck

Beck Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Beck

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production. — Beck

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced. — Beck

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be. — Beck

I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music. — Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002. — Beck

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. — Beck

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. — Beck

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win. — Beck

It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard. — Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them. — Beck

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically. — Beck

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind. — Beck

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener. — Beck

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world. — Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance. — Beck

When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared. — Beck

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. — Beck

My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche. — Beck

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music. — Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to. — Beck

Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone. — Beck

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it. — Beck

I think I gave indications early on that mine wasn't just going to be a commercial, er, career. If that were the case, then the first record would have been 10 versions of 'Loser.' I always thought it would be interesting if there was no such thing as gold and platinum records, or record deals, and people were just making music. What would the music sound like? — Beck

There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing. — Beck

There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record. — Beck

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. — Beck

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording. — Beck

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. — Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming. — Beck

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory. — Beck

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial. — Beck

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

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking. — Beck

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years. — Beck

I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment. — Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized. — Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve. — Beck

You can't write if you can't relate. — Beck

Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things. — Beck

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare. — Beck

I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional. — Beck

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. — Beck

I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done. — Beck

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon. — Beck

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. — Beck

You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on the minutiae of technical things. And I just thought it'd be fun to do something extremely fast and get that rush of something that had some energy, something that you weren't tired of when you finished it. — Beck

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards. — Beck

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. — Beck

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary. — Beck

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. — Beck

Life Lessons by Beck

1. Beck's work emphasizes the importance of taking risks and pushing boundaries in order to create something unique and innovative.
2. His creative approach to music has taught us to be open-minded and to think outside the box.
3. His career has also shown us the value of remaining true to oneself and staying dedicated to one's craft.