147 Quotes by Julian Casablancas

That it’s a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you’ll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

The Strokes can play anything. They could play ‘Thriller,’ and it would just sound like ‘Thriller’ as played by the Strokes.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don’t know how to be creative.

It’s not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

The problem with touring isn’t the traveling and the shows, it’s the vegetal state you get into.

I mean, I guess you could say I’m a bit of a perfectionist.

Kids are always honest, ’cause they don’t think they’re ever going to die.

We’re so quick to point out our own flaws in others.