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" I don't particularly like L.A. "
Walter Becker
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" It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out. "
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" What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess. "
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Ideas
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" Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.' "
Walter Becker
Places
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America
" There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write. "
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Said
Radio
" 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. "
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Great
Always
Land
" Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations. "
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High
Us
Expectations
" We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz. "
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Flow
Swing
Rock
" I love guys like Charlie Parker. "
Walter Becker
Charlie
Love
Like
" Our career had a sort of funny shape. "
Walter Becker
Sort
Funny
Career
" 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. "
Walter Becker
Beach
Guess
Who
" 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. "
Walter Becker
Living
Man
Broken
" 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. "
Walter Becker
Doing
Discussion
Before
" 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. "
Walter Becker
Audience
Going
Find
" 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. "
Walter Becker
Jazz
Band
More
" With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive. "
Walter Becker
Survive
Relationship
Possible
" 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. "
Walter Becker
Good
Me
Work
" We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most. "
Walter Becker
Where
Scene
Been
" 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. "
Walter Becker
Personal
Obscure
Me
" You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later. "
Walter Becker
You
Years
Same
" 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. "
Walter Becker
Planned
Life
Fact
" I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion. "
Walter Becker
Gag
Like
Onion
" Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion. "
Walter Becker
Rock
Being
Fashion
" All our wives are experimental psychologists. "
Walter Becker
Psychologists
Wives
Our
" 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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Up
Unsuccessful
Material
" It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency. "
Walter Becker
Music
Playing
Consistency
" You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!' "
Walter Becker
Clothes
You
Like
" There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want. "
Walter Becker
Writing
Freedom
Yourself
" When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically. "
Walter Becker
Song
Spirit
Cooperation
" 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. "
Walter Becker
Cynicism
Better
Things
" We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id. "
Walter Becker
ID
Constantly
Competing