Donald Fagen Quotes
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
Steely Dan
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
Isaac Hanson
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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D. B. Sweeney
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Patrick Kane
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Andy Kindler
When you have fun doing something, it stops being work, really.
Joey Kramer
Aerosmith
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Alber Elbaz
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Victor Garber
Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over-formal.
Francis Bacon
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
Steely Dan
