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" Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about. "

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" 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. "

" In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Our career had a sort of funny shape. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation. "

" All our wives are experimental psychologists. "

" 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. "

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

" I love guys like Charlie Parker. "

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

" There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television. "

" Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can. "

" When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically. "

" We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do. "

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