81 Quotes by Walter Becker

Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'

Most of our songs are about relationships.

It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.

We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.