Quotes by Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist – anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

Moving

People

Rocks

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Guitar

Play

Ugly

I don’t think you can escape the environment we live in now.

Environment

Thinking

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.

Dream

Faces

Sex

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Critical

Flaws

Looks

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn’t enough time for something to develop musically.

Enough Time

Four

Song

I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.

Inseparable

May

Thinking

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.

Kids

Play

Years

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.

Art

Growing Up

Real

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.

Mother

Talking

Thinking

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Art

Beautiful

Beautiful World

Critical

Design

Doors

Dream

Ejaculation

Enough Time

Environment

Faces

Flaws

Four

Giving

Groove

Growing Up

Guitar

How Time Flies

Inseparable

Kids

Looks

May

Mind

Mother

Moving

New York

People

Performers

Play

Player

Popularity

Quirky

Rays

Real

Rock N Roll

Rocks

Sex

Simple

Singers

Song

Style

Talking

Thinking

Time Flies

Transformation

Trying

Ugly

Wanted

Wilson

World

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Quotes by Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist – anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

I don’t think you can escape the environment we live in now.

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.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn’t enough time for something to develop musically.

I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.

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.

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.

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