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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
- Consistency
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
- Behavioural
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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