"[Weather Report] has never put out a record that we didn’t believe in, and there’s no way in the world that anybody was ever involved in a one star album. This is a heavy thing, man. I mean, even if somebody doesn’t like the record, just for the compositions alone it’s got to be five stars. We played it very well; we worked hard on this record. Anybody who gives this record one star has got to be insane."
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As quoted in Birnbaum, Larry, “Weather Report Answers Its Critics,” Down Beat, Feb. 8, 1979, pp. 44-45. Down Beat Magazine.
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Joe Zawinul
Josef Erich Zawinul (7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian pianist, keyboardist and composer. He was the co-founder of jazz fusion bands Weather Report and the Zawinul Syndicate.
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