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All Quotes by author - Walter Becker

" ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful. "

" All our wives are experimental psychologists. "

" Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are. "

" 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in. "

" From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show. "

" 'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it. "

" Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music. "

" Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes. "

" I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned. "

" I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas. "

" I don't particularly like L.A. "

" I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music. "

" If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it. "

" If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it. "

" If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public. "

" If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad. "

" I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people. "

" I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation. "

" I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it. "

" I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know. "

" I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. "

" I love guys like Charlie Parker. "

" I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players. "

" I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way. "

" I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion. "

" In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts. "

" In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players. "

" I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself. "

" I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different. "

" I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be. "

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