"What do you do with what you're given,……" — Donald Fagen

"What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?"

— Donald Fagen

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17 Quotes by Donald Fagen

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Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it…
We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound…
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real…
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.
People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.
My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New…
I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.
My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used…
Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex,…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to… — Chinua Achebe
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by… — Saint Augustine
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if… — Saint Augustine
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not… — Edward Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have… — Richard Bach

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