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" Most of our songs are about relationships. "
Walter Becker
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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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" I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop. "
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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. "
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" 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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" It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out. "
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Jazz
Love
" 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. "
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" There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want. "
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Freedom
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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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Tea
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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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End
Just
Struggle
" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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Hotel
Drive
Want
" It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album. "
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Bother
Play
Own
" 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
" With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time. "
Walter Becker
Time
Happy
Musicians
" We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id. "
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ID
Constantly
Competing
" 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
Guess
Who
" There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television. "
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Lot
Television
My Life
" 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. "
Walter Becker
Audience
Going
Find
" I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it. "
Walter Becker
Doing
You
Way
" 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. "
Walter Becker
People
Ideas
Trouble
" 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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Flow
Swing
Rock
" You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!' "
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Clothes
You
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" 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. "
Walter Becker
Successful
Interesting
Performance
" 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
" 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
Like
Strange
Way
" I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion. "
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Interested
Fusion
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" '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. "
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Day
Remember
Song
" I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. "
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Odds
World
Old
" 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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You
Bad
People