American - Musician | February 20, 1950 - September 3, 2017
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.
Walter Becker
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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.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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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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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.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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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.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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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.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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