Walter Becker Quotes

'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.

Walter Becker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1950 - September 3, 2017

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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

John F. Kennedy

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But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.

Tom Hanks

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When we had our first son, four different people gave us the same present: a copy of Ezra Jack Keats' 'The Snowy Day.' A new child often inspires duplicate gifts - we were given a dozen mostly useless baby blankets, just one more thing to spit up on - but this one was different.

Rumaan Alam

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If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

Rupert Everett

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Should a girl like me, in whom the milk of human kindness flows copiously for everyone, from protein-shy Hottentots to the glandular obese, actually aim a few swift boots at the prone form of Sen. Phil Gramm? Nah. But it's tempting.

Molly Ivins

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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Luc de Clapiers

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I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

Lucy Alibar

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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series.

Jude Deveraux

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The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Julia Roberts

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One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

Joyce DeWitt

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There's no vacation from being a parent.

Chevy Chase

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