Dweezil Zappa
Related KYGO ACE FREHLEY 'Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-... LESLIE FEIST I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ... ALAN YATES I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ... ALAN YATES When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability ... KIESZA I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percu... JACKIE DESHANNON The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to ... JONNY GREENWOOD I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang. JEFF AMENT I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th... MADELEINE PEYROUX TEENA MARIE So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't wa... MIDGE URE I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do ... ANDY SUMMERS In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I e... UTADA HIKARU I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar&#... SAFFRON BURROWS BILLY COLLINS One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player f... TREVOR DONOVAN PHIL COLLINS When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the ... ANDRES SEGOVIA STEVE VAI RUSSELL SMITH I'm going to be playing four songs, ... and the songs I play, I'm going to play lead guitar on. DAN MORGAN It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. ANDY SUMMERS I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos t... TAYLOR HAWKINS I think if you take 'Get Ready,' 'Waiting For The Siren's Call,' 'Lost Siren... BERNARD SUMNER For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the ... MARK KNOPFLER I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something lik... DWEEZIL ZAPPA KEHLANI DAVID BYRNE KIRK HAMMETT At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar play... JAMES IHA I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up wi... JAMES MERCER A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but ... BARRY MANN BRAD PAISLEY At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is grea... ROBBIE ROBERTSON In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns... RICHARD CORLISS AVICII I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played this guitar on and... ANDY GRIFFITH CHUCK BERRY I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left t... DAVID WALTON A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar ... BARRY MANN I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me. STEPHAN JENKINS We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit ... DAVE HAYWOOD CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE RIVERS CUOMO I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol... OWEN ARTHUR LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE AXL ROSE I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people. DOC WATSON JAMES TAYLOR For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we cou... BEN GIBBARD My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me ... GEORGE BENSON IAN ANDERSON ALAN WALKER Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo. J MASCIS JOSH TURNER Our last album was kind of crammed full of melodies, and for whatever reason, we felt like every son... DOUG MCCOMBS ERIC CLAPTON MARTIN GARRIX SUFJAN STEVENS There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, wh... DAISY BERKOWITZ Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual... ANDY SUMMERS I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm jus... PHILLIP PHILLIPS MICHIO KAKU I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors. MIKE FIGGIS We believed in Guitar Hero from the very beginning and committed to not only the software developmen... DEAN KU GARY CHERONE The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. ANDY SUMMERS KYGO PETER CAPALDI KIRK HAMMETT I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film. AUSTIN BUTLER Twenty Years, ... It's big, blazing guitars, big drums, lots of melodies, all done in three minutes ... JEFF DUNCAN JOAN JETT I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love... MAREN MORRIS We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I... JIMMY CARL BLACK CHRIS CORNELL I hope those great melodies become popular; that the new kids hear the old melodies and enjoy them. SERGIO MENDES I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the ... BILL CALLAHAN The notes were deleted from the slides we posted because they were not intended for publication. LYNN FOX JULES SHEAR It is sort of guitar and it is sort of melodic and it has got character, JASON DONOVAN All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consid... BEN LERNER IAN ANDERSON The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time.... JACK ANTONOFF BRUNO MARS All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. An... GUY CLARK DAN AYKROYD TOM WAITS I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He'... DHANI HARRISON Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to inno... DAN ROSENSWEIG And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w... PRISCILLA AHN The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm no... TAYLOR HANSON COREY TAYLOR Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first. FLUME We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was ... ARTO LINDSAY I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable gui... JEFF BECK We had about 30 songs. I picked some I thought my mom would really like and some I liked. We went in... ALAN JACKSON Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, ... GREG ILES When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started ... MIRANDA COSGROVE
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About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for a... DWEEZIL ZAPPA There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music becaus... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re... DWEEZIL ZAPPA The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do w... DWEEZIL ZAPPA We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task ... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously goo... DWEEZIL ZAPPA There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musician... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I don't care about a social life. DWEEZIL ZAPPA I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked... DWEEZIL ZAPPA But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and j... DWEEZIL ZAPPA And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal. DWEEZIL ZAPPA I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something lik... DWEEZIL ZAPPA It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textur... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music ... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guita... DWEEZIL ZAPPA While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing mus... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing. DWEEZIL ZAPPA The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and som... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybo... DWEEZIL ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn th... AHMET ZAPPA The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't comm... AHMET ZAPPA I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it. AHMET ZAPPA I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are ... AHMET ZAPPA I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible. AHMET ZAPPA I collect things that just look retarded. AHMET ZAPPA All the drawings are mine. Originally, the idea I sold to Random House was an illustrated recipe boo... AHMET ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off... 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Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I play... 
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs. 
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. 
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warn... 
I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what ... 
It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the... 
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery o... 
I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my... 
When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar pl... 
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. 
For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that... 
It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies. 
Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guit... 
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodies birds sing madrigals. 
I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon... 
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. 
'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the gui... 
I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends o... 
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a ... 
I chose 'Time' by Hans Zimmer because it's very melodic, and the way it progresses throu... 
He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir... 
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, fo... 
I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco. 
I do wonder if people aren't just interested in music that has meaning, ... Because there's been an ... 
Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings. 
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. 
My biggest influence growing up was Avicii, who put me onto creating the sorts of melodies that feat... 
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. 
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. 
When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I... 
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept fro... 
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based ... 
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks... 
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a... 
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. 
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song... 
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. 
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. 
The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, ... 
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long s... 
I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne. 
I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make brea... 