Between Quote by Jaco Pastorius

Steve Van Zandt is a very intelligent, smart guy. He's a historian, he knows a lot about rock n' roll, a lot about music.

— Frank Vincent

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

— George Gershwin

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and…

— Gail Zappa

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

— Larry Coryell

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

— Elmer Bernstein

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For…

— Pierre Boulez

I've learned a lot from Dave Stewart; he's a serial collaborator. He's co-written songs with more people than anybody I know - like the…

— Jihae

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

— Buddy Rich

Now there is music from which a man can learn something.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Keith Jarrett’s achievements and contribution are immense and unique and it is primarily the fact that he cannot be pigeonholed which has so confused…

— Ian Carr

Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt…

— Dweezil Zappa

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been…

— Gail Zappa