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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Most of our songs are about relationships. "

" I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "