Quotes by Beck

Every time you go in, its like starting over. You dont know how you did the other records. Youre learning all over. Its some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Some need diamonds some need loveSome need cards some need luckSome need dollar bills lining their clothesall I need is, all I need is two white horses in a line

Youre just the girl of my dreamsBut it seems my dreams never come true

Lonesome tearsI cant cry them anymoreI cant think of what theyre forOh they ruin me every timeBut Ill try to leave behind some daysThese tears just cant eraseI dont need them anymoreHow could this loveEver turningNever turn its eye on meHow could this loveEver changingNever change the way I feelLazy sun your eyes catch the lightWith the promises that mightCome true for awhileOh Ill ride farther than I shouldHarder than I couldJust to meet you thereHow could this loveEver turningNever turn its eye on meHow could this loveEver changingNever change the way I feel

These spider webs are my home now

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mothers face, her aspect and her attitude.

I love British humor. Its just so - surreal.

In recording, youre trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesnt sound as cool. On paper, though, its all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.

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

If you look at an old piece of sheet music, theres all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs success, theres artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way its notated.

Im really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the 30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-60s and 70s.

If someone is making a judgment when they dont have firsthand experience, its intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you dont know about?

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you dont really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

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