Walter Becker Quotes

Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.

Walter Becker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicFashionRockRock MusicBeing

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Jim Jarmusch

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I don't talk about anything negative.

Jerry Lewis

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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

Stephen Fry

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I've always said that Guy Clark is a regional songwriter without being regional. He's global. His craft is like, well, Larry McMurtry would be an example. I kind of see Guy Clark and Larry McMurtry in the same wave.

Rodney Crowell

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Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Miles Davis

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Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I want to be a part of 'Avengers'; they can make me the Hulk! I want to do a superhero film.

Disha Patani

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Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

Christoph Waltz

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A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.

Bradley Walsh

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The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

Antonis Samaras

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