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.

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• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Wish
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Girlfriend

• The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.

  

  Vince Gill
  • People
  • Real
  • Amazing

• It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Book
  • Amazing

• I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Like
  • Take
  • Beast

• One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Christian
  • Values

• I have fabulous children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Fabulous

• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Celebrity
  • Ways

• I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wounded

• I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Long
  • Night
  • Me

• Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Great
  • Democracy
  • Commitment

• I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Television
  • Box
  • Had

• When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Day

• Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Know
  • Animals
  • Recognize

• I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Never
  • Will

• When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Father
  • Wrong

• One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Time
  • Dance
  • Reaction

• The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Air

• I am not a good cue card reader.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Reader
  • Card
  • Cue

• I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Sad
  • India
  • I Have Learned

• I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Chicago
  • Exchange

• Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• 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 China Crisis
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