Walter Becker Quotes

When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.

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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FirstRadioOutGreatestHappened

I've always gone into the studio with a very clear understanding of a song, of the words or, if it's an instrumental piece, of the melodies, and that never changes.

Jenny Scheinman

WordsSongUnderstandingNeverGone

Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

SometimesRightAudienceConnecting

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

John Howard

StupidCountryBeliefBeyondCarry

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

Robert Knepper

WorkLoveHatePeopleMeThought

I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I've always done. That's really where my best stuff comes from. I don't know how it happens. It just happens.

Ron White

BestKnowDoneAlwaysLittleWhere

To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Ruth Reichl

CookingManMeWritingThinkDone

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

Lou Doillon

LifeMusicMeSingingMy LifeLong

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Livy

EndWillIn The EndIntentBetray

News flash: The federal government is not the most efficient institution in the world. Taxpayers know that.

Jon Ossoff

GovernmentWorldNewsKnowFlash

What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.

Cliff Chiang

ArtFeelTryingFeelingMoreUp

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Brandon Boyd

ArtEverywhere

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle

SoulBodyMoreAskMustWax

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