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" With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time. "

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" 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. "

" It's great fun to play with a really good band. "

" 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. "

" My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. "

" We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion. "

" We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion. "

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

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