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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's great fun to play with a really good band. "

" Our career had a sort of funny shape. "

" 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. "

" We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz. "

" People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts. "

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

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

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

" There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television. "

" 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. "

" There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written. "

" 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 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. "

" Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations. "

" We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports. "

" The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life. "

" 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. "

" We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric. "

" All our wives are experimental psychologists. "

" 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. "