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Top 20 Donald Fagen Quotes (2025 Update)

Donald Fagen Quote: “When you get a groove going, time flies.”

1. “When you get a groove going, time flies.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist – anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.”

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

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn’t enough time for something to develop musically.”

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

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.”

4. “Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “The milk of the sacred cows has a way of turning sour.”

5. “The milk of the sacred cows has a way of turning sour.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “I started a lyric for this song “Godwhacker,” which Walter and I completed and recorded for a Steely Dan CD. It’s about an elite squad of assassins whose sole assignment is to find a way into heaven and take out God. If the Deity actually existed, what sane person wouldn’t consider this to be justifiable homicide?”

6. “I started a lyric for this song “Godwhacker,” which Walter and I completed and recorded for a Steely Dan CD. It’s about an elite squad of assassins whose sole assignment is to find a way into heaven and take out God. If the Deity actually existed, what sane person wouldn’t consider this to be justifiable homicide?”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “One of the Count’s most quoted sentences is “The map is not the territory.” In other words, don’t confuse the word with the object, the description with the thing itself.”

7. “One of the Count’s most quoted sentences is “The map is not the territory.” In other words, don’t confuse the word with the object, the description with the thing itself.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.”

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

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “What do you do with what you’re given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?”

10. “What do you do with what you’re given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “It’s great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it’s wonderful to think that we’ve turned a few people on to jazz over the years.”

12. “It’s great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it’s wonderful to think that we’ve turned a few people on to jazz over the years.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “I don’t think you can escape the environment we live in now.”

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

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “People are usually afraid to say what’s on their mind.”

14. “People are usually afraid to say what’s on their mind.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.”

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

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “We don’t think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it’s more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.”

16. “We don’t think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it’s more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “My style is a little quirky. I can’t play as fast as most professional jazz players.”

18. “My style is a little quirky. I can’t play as fast as most professional jazz players.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.”

19. “My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.”

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.”

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

— Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen Quote: “I’ve never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.”

21. “I’ve never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.”

— Donald Fagen

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