February 2012
6 posts
carolinemoessner asked: Happy Valentine's Day!!!! :) ❤
“Someone in the audience drunkenly bad mouths support act and Strokes buddies The...”
– Circuit Magazine on The Strokes live in Austin, Texas, March 2001.
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“You know, sometimes you don’t know why you like it.But like, I’ll be specific...”
– Julian Casablancas, talking about meanings behind the songs he writes (FIOE era)
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John Casablancas Interview
Interviewer: You're also the father of Julian Casablancas, lead singer of the Strokes...
(John interrupts him to say)
John C.: Yes, yes, I'm very proud of him!
Interviewer: Did you guys use to compete to see which one would get more women?
John C.: Actually, he did the exact opposite, he only had two girlfriends, and married his second one.
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“If I have daughters, I’ll have to be realistic - it’s not going to be like: “You...”
– Albert Hammond Jr.
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For the anon who asked the source of that Albert's... →
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January 2012
15 posts
Anonymous asked: Hey, just wondering if you know the source for an Albert quote from a while back, where he said " “I love the band, I love the songs Julian writes. I love working on them. I’ve learned so much from every band member. So it’s nothing weird.” thanks!
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“The first time we met, I think it was Julian who said ‘We want to sound...”
– Gordon Raphael on when he met The Strokes
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“Always respect people but never really trust them. If I need something done I...”
– Nick Valensi
Anonymous asked: I just wanted to let you know that your picture is the "knock off" version, I guess, of The Strokes logo or whatever. I know this because the official Strokes website has the correct one. I don't mean to be a dick about it, just want to help make your blog more legitimate. <3
id-get-in-that-leatherjacket asked: hey there, the quote from Fab about playing for "some seals" is from their 2006 interview here /watch?v=WAq1mgq2F1 he says it at 2:51 :)
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“I don’t even know the words to my songs.”
– Julian Casablancas (interviewing Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek from The Doors)
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“If I had to describe my interview style I’d say it’s Chris...”
– Julian Casablancas (interviewing Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek from The Doors)
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Julian: Writing songs is very difficult and fun… and difficult. And the fun is that it’s difficult and the difficulty is that it’s difficult… … oh damn.
Nikolai: Nice try, man.
Julian: WHYYYYYY????!!
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Do you think the band was portrayed unfairly?
People thought we were some put-together creation. The press created this weird parallel universe for us to exist in. I know everyone was trying to write an exciting story, but it’s weird to imagine the idea of me and the band that you’d get from reading about us. I’m actually a pretty normal person. I watch Seinfeld. I came to it late, but I watch it. (SPIN Interview, November...
Anonymous asked: i know you reblog a lot, but if you know the sources could you cite where the quotes come from when you make original posts? it would make things easier to find :)
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Interviewer: (in the middle of interviewing Julian, answers mobile) “Hello?”
Albert: “It’s Albert, is Julian there?”
Interviewer: “Yeah. He doesn’t have his own phone?”
Albert: “No. I’m at the video store. Can you just ask him if he wants to watch Fletch tonight?”
(source: nme.com)
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“I’d like to go to Antarctica. Play for some seals”
– Fabrizio Moretti
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Q: What has Behind The Music taught The Strokes?
Julian: No girls on tour. Never board a plane if you think there’s something wrong with the engine
Albert: No small planes
Fabrizio: Make sure your business manager doesn’t look like a TV character
Nick: If half the band does drugs and the other half of the band doesn’t do drugs, you will break up in the next six months
Julian: So we all do drugs
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“You’re watching yourself masturbate in the mirror. We’re The...”
– Nick Valensi while hosting Rage, July 2001 [x]
December 2011
18 posts
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“Um – I was watching Behind The Music on VH-1 the other night and there was this...”
– Julian Casablancas
“I feel like I’ve given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things...”
– Julian Casablancas (via sexyjulianlover)
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“Obviously I understand if people hate hearing about us so much. I’d probably...”
– Nick Valensi
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“The best part of the night is after the show. You get this natural high from...”
– Albert Hammond Jr
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“Nick and I play guitar differently, and there’s no ego involved in what we’re...”
– Albert Hammond Jr
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“Get your shit done, then have fun.”
– Nikolai Fraiture
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“I very often have night terrors, I’ve died in my sleep 23 different ways.”
– Julian Casablancas
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“I’d like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will...”
– Julian Casablancas
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“No matter how hard you work or what you accomplish, nothing gives you the right...”
– Julian Casablancas
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“I love the band, I love the songs Julian writes. I love working on them....”
– Albert Hammond Jr
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“Roy Orbison was the best one, man. I’m such a huge fan of his, but at the...”
– Albert Hammond Jr on his fathers’ collaborators and clients habit of dropping by
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Albert Hammond: He called me from university and said he had to choose between school and the band, and I said, 'The choice is made, it's the band.'
Albert Hammond Jr smiles: It's his fault anyway. You told me all those stories.
Albert Hammond nods: Many stories. One of my first gigs was in a strip club in Morocco: 22 beautiful women stripping all around me and me singing Johnny Cash songs. I was 16. I'd tell him stories like that. I guess I wasn't too surprised when he said he wanted to play guitar.
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“The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was...”
– Albert Hammond Jr
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“People assume that you lead a socialite life like Paris Hilton, but when I was...”
– Albert Hammond Jr on having a famous dad
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“With most people, there’s a separation between the two
hemispheres of their...”
– Fab Moretti (Mojo, 2006)
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“I remember I used to have a big crush on my Danish cousin, and we made out when...”
– Julian Casablancas
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“I had a 102 fever, and they got me drunk. I heard their stuff and really wanted...”
– Albert Hammond, Jr (first jam session with the band)
November 2011
14 posts
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“The song title sounds like a Pokémon character. It’s a rock song we wanted to...”
– Mark Foster on Machu Picchu
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FIVE SCRAPPY KIDS
Jules: So, when you first met The Strokes, what did you think of them?
Ryan: Well, they were five kinda scrappy kids. Baggy jeans. Listening to rap. I said, hey, listen kid, you cut your hair like this. Put on these pants. I wrote 'em some songs. Put 'em in front of an audience. And you know, it was just a crapshoot from there. Luckily it all worked out, you know. Every now and then you catch them listening to their old records. And I just throw those away. Because no more. It's rock and roll, I said kids, rock and roll is what it's about now. And that's what you're gonna play.
“Julian’s lyrics are like fragments of the last night that you remember the next...”
– Albert Hammond Jr. - Mojo, Action. Time. Vision. (August 2003)
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“Basically, when my parents got divorced… I don’t know… everything was, I don’t...”
– Julian Casablancas on his parents’ marriage (The Face 2002 article)
“Devendra Banhart. Devendra… Devendra. That’s a cool name. Devendra… D-Man....”
– Julian Casablancas after Devendra Banhart performed, March 12th 2011
idfuckjuliancasablancas asked: do you have a video for that quote by nick when he says beethoven?
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“There is a little call-and-response going there [on the new album]. It’s...”
– Nick Valensi
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“I’m most like Jessica Rabbit, because I’ve got huge tits.”
– Fabrizio Moretti (on cartoon characters)
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“On the bus after the show Albert made his specialty signature dish: Toasted...”
– Richard Priest (via ohsweet-nuthin)
“The smell of alcohol is a good smell.”
– Julian Casablancas - On his favourite scent 2011 (via thrillsarecheap)
“Every birthday, I make a song for her.”
– Julian about Juliet’s brithday (via iwishitwaschristmastoday)