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Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970), known professionally as Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres.

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I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Critical, Five, Lasts, Songwriting, Worked, Years

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.

Way, Facts, Equipment, Looking, Ways, Older

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.

Bask, Making, People, Real, Records, Whole

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.

Home, Records, Things, Tour, Years

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Bells, Day, Four, Holocaust, Years

Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.

Drum, Everyone, Heart, Keeping, Time

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.

Play, Song, Way, Years

I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.

Done, Music, Music Is, Song, Website

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

Okay, Overstaying, Party, Welcome, Wonder

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

Purpose, Step, Steps, Taking, Way, Zigzag

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

Detours, Emotion, Performing, Possibilities, Song, Things

When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.

Feelings, Sound, Different, Physiology, Playing, Waves

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

Band, Collaboration, Enjoy, Envied, Interaction, People

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

Era, Eras, Living, Pro, Technique, Tools

There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

Different, Down, People, Received, Track, Turntable

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

British, Humor, Love, Surreal

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.

Clock, Finished, Fun, Time, Tired, Years

You can't please everybody, man.

Everybody, Man, Men, Please

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

Away, Desert, Weight, Wind, World

I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

Change, Day, Helping Others, Nice, People

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