193 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

I grew up I guess you’d say in the cassette era.

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.

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.

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.