Quotes by Donald Fagen - Page 1

We're not getting any younger.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Younger
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When you get a groove going, time flies.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Groove
How Time Flies
Time Flies
Get
Flies
Time Time Flies Flies
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People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Mind
People
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I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Environment
Thinking
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What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free
Donald Fagen / Musician
Beautiful
Beautiful World
World
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Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
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I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!
Donald Fagen / Musician
Now
Distinguishing
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I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Inseparable
May
Thinking
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My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Quirky
Jazz
Littles
Player
Style
Fast
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What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
Donald Fagen / Musician
Given
Rock N Roll
Transformation
Worthwhile
Transform
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As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Guitar
Play
Ugly
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I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Critical
Flaws
Looks
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I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Comfortable
Performers
Singers
Wanted
Particularly
Performer
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I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Enough Time
Four
Minutes
Song
Time Enough Way
Develop
Time Way Enough
Musically
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Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Moving
Offensive
People
Rock Music
Rocks
Music Me People
Fascist
Inherently
Intended
Masses
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Now why the hell would I want to increase the volume of my ejaculation ? They can already hear me in the apartment next door.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Doors
Ejaculation
Sex
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Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Newman
Randy
Rays
Singers
Wilson
Charles
Even Worse
Singer
Jack
Joe
Levi
Pickett
Ray
Seemed
Tex
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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 / Musician
Design
Thinking
Trying
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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 / Musician
New York
Hung
Intuitive
Jersey
New Jersey
School
Song
Writing
Earlier
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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 / Musician
People
Thinking
Years
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I had a dream that Britney Spears rubbed her breasts in my face and Jennifer Lopez gave me head while Salma Hayek sucked my toes and the Olsen twins videotaped everything. I would have kept dreaming it, too, if I hadn't set off the smoke detector.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Dream
Faces
Sex
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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 / Musician
Kids
Jazz
Lessons
Notes
Pianist
Play
Years
Ear
Garland
Imitate
Jazz Musicians
Musicians
Slow
Trained
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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 / Musician
Mother
Talking
Thinking
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Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple melody really different. You can also have a complex melody. The more complex it is, the harder it is to sing, and then sometimes it can sound contrived. You could write a melody that would be fine on a saxophone but if you give it to a singer, it can sound raunchy.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Giving
Simple
Writing
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I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see.
Donald Fagen / Musician
Art
Growing Up
Real
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