Zawinul Joe Quotes & Sayings

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich? — Jay Livingston

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills ... all apart from cooking. — Heston Blumenthal

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall. — Joe Zawinul

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one? — Susan Orlean

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer. — Joe Zawinul

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. — Lynda Barry

Only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not give by the other. — Osho

Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains. — George Santayana

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised. — Joe Zawinul

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to. — Joe Zawinul

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records. — Richard Reeves

But I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world. — Joe Zawinul

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining. — Joe Zawinul

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this. — Patti Davis

I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as what the road crew was supposed to do and when, set Miller straight. "You don't ask Wayne shit like that," he snapped. "It's 7:06 p.m." [p.1] — Ben Ratliff