Steely Dan Quotes

• I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

  Travis Barker

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• My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

  St. Vincent

  Dad, Kids, Car

  "St Vincent: soundtrack of my life". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• I love Coldplay. I love Steely Dan - Steely Dan's probably one of my top three bands of all time.

  Judd Apatow

  Three, Band, All Time

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

  Barney Hoskyns

  Real, Balls, Truth Is

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• I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. I adore Ralph Towner, Leo Kottke. I've always been a big Oscar Peterson fan. I've branched out a little bit more in rock-and-roll, but that's maybe because I'm 50 years old and I can now listen to Steely Dan again without shame. I adore the Grateful Dead. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. All that's been fun to get back into. But I'm no longer interested in the Doobie Brothers.

  Thomas Hampson

  Brother, Fun, Grateful

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

  Donald Fagen

  Thinking, May, Inseparable

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• My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

  Jonny Lang

  Parent, Records, Stuff

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