Top 60 Julian Casablancas Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Forgive them even if they are not sorry.”

— Julian Casablancas

2. “Religion is never the problem; it’s the people who use it to gain power.”

— Julian Casablancas

3. “The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.”

— Julian Casablancas

4. “Just slow it down enough to enjoy the ride.”

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5. “Desire is individual. Happiness is common.”

— Julian Casablancas

6. “Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?”

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7. “Birth is a beautiful thing.”

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8. “I over-think stuff a lot.”

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9. “Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.”

— Julian Casablancas

10. “I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That’s my aspiration.”

— Julian Casablancas

11. “When you first start writing a song, it’s fun, then when you start recording it, it’s fun, but by the time you’ve finished recording it, you’re sick of it.”

— Julian Casablancas

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12. “Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.”

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13. “It’s that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you’re in a car, at a party or alone at home or in bed and you hear this song and it just hits you so strong – that’s what we aim for.”

— Julian Casablancas

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14. “I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you’ve got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you’re going to face in your life. So far, Juliet’s been there for me. She’s been good for my voice, good for my everything.”

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15. “With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?”

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16. “If it doesn’t start with you, it dies with you.”

— Julian Casablancas

17. “I’m happy to feed the illusion that I’m a lazy recluse.”

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18. “If you’re in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it’s a very special thing.”

— Julian Casablancas

19. “Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!”

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20. “A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour’s a great way to destroy a band.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “I’m really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.”

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

24. “If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don’t think the second option is some big sellout.”

— Julian Casablancas

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

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

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27. “I am a fan of ‘SNL’ and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.”

— Julian Casablancas

28. “No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.”

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29. “I enjoy songwriting. It’s slow-motion improvising.”

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

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

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

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33. “Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.”

— Julian Casablancas

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

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

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36. “Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.”

— Julian Casablancas

37. “I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.”

— Julian Casablancas

38. “I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it’s a regular thing for me. I’ve died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.”

— Julian Casablancas

39. “Don’t you dare get to the top and not know what to do.”

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40. “I’m just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don’t want him to feel too entitled.”

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41. “You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success – but we didn’t live like yuppies.”

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42. “It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.”

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43. “I’m not a pop song lyric writer. I can’t just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.”

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44. “I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what’s going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.”

— Julian Casablancas

45. “Boarding school didn’t feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.”

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46. “I don’t really care about clothes, but it’s about wearing something that gives you social confidence.”

— Julian Casablancas

47. “I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.”

— Julian Casablancas

48. “My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.”

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49. “A band is a good way to break up a friendship.”

— Julian Casablancas

50. “Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he’s got on. And when you know everything’s gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.”

— Julian Casablancas