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

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" 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. "

" My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. "

" With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time. "

" We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id. "

" I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

" What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz. "

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

" The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great. "

" Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts. "

" Our career had a sort of funny shape. "

" I think the audience for Limp Bizkit is probably not going to be particularly interested in what we're doing. I don't think they'll find much that satisfies them in what we do. "

" I love guys like Charlie Parker. "

" Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about. "

" It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record. "

" You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!' "

" Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion. "

" We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong. "

" When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill. "

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

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

" It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency. "

" 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. "

" We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most. "