“Race is like; for this country is like a, the thing story in the mythology that you have to do for the kingdom to be well; and it's always something don't want to do; and it's always that thing that so much about you confronting yourself that is tailor made for you to fail dealing with it, and the question of your heroism and of your courage and of your successes at dealing with this trial, is can you confront it with honesty and do you confront and do you have the energy to sustain an attack on it, and since Jazz music is at the center of the American mythology, it necessarily deals with race. The more we run from it the more we run into it. It's an age old story you know if it's not race it's something else but in this particular instance in this particular nation it's race.”
Wynton Marselis –“Jazz” documentary

“The white crack who wrote the national anthem new what he was doing when he set the note free so high that nobody could reach it. That what deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less free to me.”
“Angels in America” – movie

“The Power of time.”
Billy Kavellaris - at Joe Zawinul & the Zawinul Syndicate-Musical reference

“When your inspired, rational thinking is gone!”
Joe Zawinul - Interview RRR

“Music is one of the ways to win the heart of people. To send messages across language and cultural barriers, to create harmony were speeches and manifestoes fail.”
“Two years with the Zawinul Sydicate” - India (A lady's speech introducing Joe)

“We share the same biology regardless of ideology.”
Sting – “Russians” (Song lyrics-‘The Best of Sting’)

“Information is not knowledge,
Knowledge is not wisdom,
Wisdom is not truth,
Truth is not beauty,
Beauty is not love,
Love is not music,
Music is the BEST...
Wisdom is the domain of the Wis (which is extinct))
Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament currently in resurgence...”Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage (Disc 2, track 5 ‘Packard Goose’")

“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”
Frank Zappa - “You can't do that on stage No: 2 anymore”

“Zappa is my Elvis”Matt Grenoug - Simpsons Creator

“I was the tool of the composer.”
Steve Vai – Talking about Frank Zappa

“When a musician gets a new instrument, it like getting a new wife.”Frank (Concert Pianist)- ABC radio interview

“....genius drummer Tony Williams characteristically chopping, bending and stretching the time.”
Miles Davis – “Miles in the Sky”

“You have to listen to the notes she's not playing.”Lisa Simpson – “The Simpsons”

“Too many notes!”
“Amadeus” - movie

“Not the best, not the worst, but the first!”
Grand Master Flash

“Welcome to the power of surrender, first things first. you must surrender your expectation. for those of you expected to get your purple rain on, you’re in the wrong house. you see we are not interested in what you know, but you are willing to learn.”Prince – “one night alone...live” track 3 – “Kenophobia”

“The last Poets’… they were word-smiths.”
Chuck-D - Documentary

“I wanted to here the colour in my music.”Composer - Tan Dun

“Great film making suppose to be words; or many which director wants to say but he has no space no way to say it.”
Composer - Tan Dun

“Creativity, as well as re-creativity, defies metronomic or any other pedantic sameness”Karl Haas - “Inside Music”

“I tell musicians ah… its always a melody within a melody… you just go on.”Miles Davis

“… they think that Frank Zappa is such a mad man… they don’t realise that there are notes involved!”
Warren Cuccurullo – ‘Baby Snakes’