Boxing is such a great sport and so much like making jazz music, ... There is the footwork, the jab, the constant setting up and reacting to your opponent.
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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
Indeed, despite a Teutonic accent, Zawinul contradicts stereotypes about his Austrian heritage that he should be playing Mozart and Beethoven. There is another Austria, ... much less known, and that is the folk music of Austria. Even the way we speak is very musical, like a walking jazz bass. Classical music is so dusty that the dust has dust. And much of jazz is following in the same dusty path, recreating its glories rather than moving forward.
Joe Zawinul
It was great music, ... but it has passed. It is wonderful to recall it, fun to hear it, but that is not for me I get too restless, too bored I need something new.
Joe Zawinul
One day I heard a pianist play Honeysuckle Rose,' ... and I was hooked. I said, What is that' He said, jazz,' which was a word I had never heard, and I asked him to spell it for me. My life was changed after that.
Joe Zawinul
At a spry 72 with five decades of innovative performing now behind him, does Zawinul know where jazz itself is heading I have no idea, ... but as a good improviser, I know where it is not the past.
Joe Zawinul
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