Walter Becker Quotes

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.

Walter Becker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DayWordsSongSaidWriteRadio

I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.

Anita Brookner

NeverGotWellJane AustenVery

You have be to ambitious, or otherwise, you go nowhere in life.

Jean-Eric Vergne

LifeYouGoNowhereAmbitious

Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.

Steve Albini

DieMoreSoundContentOutComplex

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

Suge Knight

YouGhettoRatHowCould

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

Rumaan Alam

LifeChildrenArtBathBubbleAwe

When you're a teenager, you could do a lot more crazy things, and your body recovers faster.

Michelle Yeoh

CrazyYouBodyYour BodyMoreYour

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

Michael Stuhlbarg

SimplicityThinkDoingCameraYou

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

Louis D. Brandeis

GovernmentLawEndConvictionBring

I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me.

Deirdre O'Kane

GoodMeThoughtDoingActorNever

It's exciting being around people who are adults - I actually race out the door in the morning and shout, 'Bye!'

Davinia Taylor

MorningPeopleDoorRaceOutBeing

They're a great audience, kids. They actually respond. They don't have the references that adults have, so everything is immediate. It's always interesting to see what they react to in whatever I'm working on at the moment. And they don't even want to discuss why. That's a lesson to remember: My son doesn't care about why.

Chris Cornell

SonGreatMomentCareInteresting

'Poltergeist' terrifies me! When the little girl Carol Anne is talking to the TV, I get shivers every time.

Willow Shields

GirlTimeMeTalkingLittleGet

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