I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible. Beck More Quotes by Beck More Quotes From 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. I didn't take it all that seriously when I started. It was a little bit of a stigma to being a songwriter or a folkie back then. I did a lot of send-ups of sensitive singer-songwriter stuff when I was starting out, which limited my development as a songwriter in a way. I wasn't really fully given license to explore that until the mid-90s. I'm still working on it; I'm a little bit of a late bloomer. Beck stigma sensitive songwriting Maybe certain aspects of what I was doing were reacting against what was happening or what people said, too. That's something that happens when you're starting out. After some time goes by and you get a little perspective, you realize that you don't need to react. You can just carry on with what you're doing. That took me a long time figure out; I've only gotten to that point in the last five or 10 years. Beck perspective long people There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. 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 artist helping-others people There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production. Over the last 20 years, myself and a lot of other musicians my age have tried to discover things in 50s, 60s, and 70s recording techniques that were lost or discarded. We've all been trying to crack this code. It's been an important period in the last 15 years, reclaiming some of those lost approaches to making records. Beck important song love-is Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them. Beck technology important trying 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 guitar remembers-you remember-you 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 records real people 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 tired fun years 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 trying way thinking With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking. Beck eras technique tools 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 labels going-away attention 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 play song years 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 technology tools use If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about? Beck judgment ifs knows Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays. Beck comedy growing-up lines I didn't want to do something typical. Beck typical want 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. Beck hammers nephew dog 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 records home years Every time you go in, it's like starting over. Beck starting-over musician over-you 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 socialism names mean
