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
pays people
What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
kid putting
When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
record
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
bit
There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
certain
Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
came hard
It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
music relate
I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
pretended
I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
cause left people song suddenly
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.
above himself people secret sees
To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
bands gravitate maybe music people specific
The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
changing few good music sat seemed step sure time
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
required
I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
actual four half majority music reduced spent time touring
I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most.