American - Musician | February 20, 1950 - September 3, 2017
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.
Walter Becker
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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.
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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.
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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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'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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