Walter Becker Quotes

We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.

Walter Becker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeachWhoBeach BoysGuessBerry

In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.

John Eisenhower

FamilyFatherMeFightingYoung

I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.

Andrew Benintendi

WorkThinkMindsetFirstHardCount

I don't think anyone wants to be in a role forever.

Matthew Morrison

ThinkForeverRoleWantsAnyone

I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.

Andy Serkis

LionThinkEntertainmentAudience

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

Stephen Kinzer

GodProvePrinciplesWillExistence

I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music. You know, what excites me are new ideas. And with a lot of the international hits - from Lady Gaga to Rihanna and others - you'd find excellent production and groundbreaking ideas that lift the music to a greater realm.

Shreya Ghoshal

MusicMeIdeasLadyYouFind

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Robert Delaunay

ArtObjectItselfDescriptive

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

Robin Gibb

MusicBigBeingKaraokeMachine

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Jawaharlal Nehru

EasyConsequencesSayEscapeTry

As soon as I got into country music, it was like hook, line and sinker. I was so focused on country, I ended up leaving all those '80s hair-band CDs behind - which now I still wish I had, but I was done with it.

Dierks Bentley

MusicWishCountryDoneNowLeaving

For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.

Claire Messud

LifeExperienceThoughtsUnexpected

Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.

Bonnie Hammer

LifeHopeCreativityImaginationKey

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