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

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" 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. "

" All our wives are experimental psychologists. "

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

" 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. "

" It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop. "

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

" We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Our career had a sort of funny shape. "

" It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process. "

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