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" 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. "

Walter Becker

Healthy

Doing

Trying

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

" 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. "

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

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High

Expectations

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

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Something

Rather

" 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 think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins. "

Walter Becker

Somewhere

Think

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Been

Able

" 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. "

" 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

Onion

" 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. "

" Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.' "

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Places

America

" 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. "

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

Walter Becker

Unsuccessful

Material

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

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Good

Artist

" All our wives are experimental psychologists. "

" 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. "

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Love

Someone

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

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Clothes

You

" 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. "

Walter Becker

Strange

Way