Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen, known by stage name Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 July 1970
CountryUnited States of America
remembers-you remember-you broken
For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill.
drinking broken-inside people
When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all the time or eating your way through the refrigerator, being hateful and angry is a very handy shield from the truth. It lets you focus on everyone else's shortcomings, and all the ways they have let you down. You can bemoan how all these broken people keep finding you somehow. That way you don't have to focus on what really matters -- the tough work of fiing what is broken inside you.
time thinking america
America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.
time air idiot
I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."
strength fall lunch
Fall to your knees and thank God for Fox News. Pray for Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. Pray for them. Pray for strength and spine, and pray that everybody involved has chicken salad for lunch so it doesn't clog anybody's arteries. Keep them going.
buddy few joined together
We joined up under the buddy system, but we were only together for a few weeks,
learning track
I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.
learning maybe musician starting time weird
Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
conference hope next
We hope to be part of the Nutmeg Conference next year. It will make us a little more competitive.
atheism belief realizing
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
intelligent opposites ideas
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
able imagine controlled
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
fate community firsts
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
september-11 wave enormous
Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.