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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
- Walter Dean Myers
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
- Walter Dean Myers
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
- Walter Dean Myers
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It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
- Walter Becker
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
- Walter Becker
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With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
- Walter Becker
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
- Walter Becker
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Most of our songs are about relationships.
- Walter Becker
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
- Walter Becker
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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.
- Walter Becker
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There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
- Walter Becker
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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
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
- Walter Becker
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If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.
- Walter Becker
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ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.
- Walter Becker
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I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins.
- Walter Becker
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
- Walter Becker
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I don't particularly like L.A.
- Walter Becker
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
- Walter Becker
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