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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. "

Walter Becker

Tea

Drive

Day

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Rather

" 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. "

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

" 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

Onion

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

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Clothes

You

" Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion. "

" 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. "

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

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Been

Able

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

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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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Somewhere

Think

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

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Good

Artist

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

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Looking

Going

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

" ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful. "

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Unsuccessful

Material

" I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know. "

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

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High

Expectations

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

" 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. "

" 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

Important

" 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. "

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Love

Someone

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All our wives are experimental psychologists. "