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

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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. "

" 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. "

" I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love guys like Charlie Parker. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't particularly like L.A. "

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

" Our career had a sort of funny shape. "

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

" All our wives are experimental psychologists. "

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