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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes. "

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

" 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. "

" If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it. "

" 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. "

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

" It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency. "

" 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 can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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