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" I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music. "
Walter Becker
Grammys
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" The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon. "
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" 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. "
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" It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album. "
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" I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it. "
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" 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. "
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Man
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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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" We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most. "
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Where
Scene
Been
" I don't particularly like L.A. "
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Like
Particularly
" 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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Pressure
More
Important
" 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. "
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Feeling
Rock
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" I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins. "
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Think
" I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion. "
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Gag
Like
Onion
" It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency. "
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Music
Playing
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" With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time. "
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Time
Happy
Musicians
" That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation. "
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" Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes. "
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Going
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Beach
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" I love guys like Charlie Parker. "
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Charlie
Love
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" 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. "
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Years
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" Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations. "
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High
Us
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" When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough. "
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" We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id. "
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ID
Constantly
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