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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I love guys like Charlie Parker. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion. "

" 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. "

" It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out. "

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