Walter Becker Quotes

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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.
'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
'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.
'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.
All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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.
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.
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.
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
I don't particularly like L.A.
I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
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.
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.
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.
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20 February, 1950
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03 September, 2017
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