Beck

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side. ↗

— Beck

#change #going #had #i #ideas

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

#get #going #half #home #keep

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy. ↗

— Beck

#entire #gave #get #greedy #hit

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released. ↗

— Beck

#been #between #change #done #evolution

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something. ↗

— Beck

#having #music #never #pressure #something

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind. ↗

— Beck

#city #coming #full #i #malls

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

— Beck

#look #men #mud #other #out

We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one. ↗

— Beck

#air #cause #hands #hip-hop #i

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

#fbi #genius #great #hammer #i

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. ↗

— Beck

#everything #long #long period #period #shorthand