Top 34 Donald Fagen Quotes
#1. I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.
Donald Fagen
#2. I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.
Donald Fagen
#3. We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
Donald Fagen
#4. It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.
Donald Fagen
#5. People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.
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#7. I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.
Donald Fagen
#8. What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
Donald Fagen
#9. Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.
Donald Fagen
#10. Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a man's tranquility, cleanse his hear of evil, and lead him to the path of truth
Anita Amirrezvani
#11. Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.
Rachel Cohn
#12. Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
Donald Fagen
#13. To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.
Steven Rattner
#15. My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.
Donald Fagen
#16. How better to show your respect for another person's thoughts than by silence? Is it polite to cover those thoughts with your own ideas? What is polite about that?
Sue Harrison
#17. January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours ...
Michael Flanders
#18. I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.
Donald Fagen
#19. All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ's demands.
Eric Ludy
#20. My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.
Donald Fagen
#21. My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
John Lennon
#22. Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion; you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities.
Steve Maraboli
#23. What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
Donald Fagen
#24. I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.
Donald Fagen
#25. I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
Donald Fagen
#26. Functional exercise is not defined by what it looks like, it's defined by what it produces
Brett Jones
#27. I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#28. I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.
Donald Fagen
#29. So, you have a hand fetish and you get turned on by the sound of my voice?" "I never said I had a hand fetish!
Tarryn Fisher
#31. As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.
Donald Fagen
#33. Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
Donald Fagen
#34. I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!
Donald Fagen
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