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Dweezil Zappa

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NINA BLACKWOOD People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
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SCOTT IAN People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&...
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FRANK ZAPPA People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO You definitely have to think of the perception of things before you actually do certain things. It m...
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JOYCE GIRAUD It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and impr...
ABEL FERRARA The nickel spot, inside. It's the hardest position to play. It's harder than outside.
JEFF FISHER 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the...
DICK DALE I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.
KURT ELLING Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the ol...
COREY TAYLOR Men and Pilates - it's like the hardest thing on the planet to them! They're not used to get...
CHRISSY TEIGEN Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fight...
MADCHEN AMICK There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what i...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing ...
LUKA SULIC He gives up a base hit, no big deal. He gives up another hit, no big deal. Next pitch, groundball, d...
DANNY ARDOIN Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of th...
TOMMY RAMONE The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the ol...
CHRYSTIA FREELAND My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature.
HIAM ABBASS It was no big deal. It didn't affect my vision and I could breathe OK.
HUNTER CANTWELL There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have...
RICK MORANIS I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands...
KATHLEEN HANNA So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like...
ADAM RICH My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is...
AARON CARTER Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the ...
GEORGE MURRAY We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dor...
JAY MCSHANN As long as they make it optional, it's no big deal.
CAROL MOORE I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that&#...
FRED WILSON One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC If I could do it again, I'd do it again. It's no big deal.
JOANNE BUXEDER Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on ...
KYLE ABRAHAM The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant de...
MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS It was just a big deal to play there because the Astrodome was a big deal.
BILLIE JEAN KING I felt proud to be on the team the four years I've been playing. It was just amazing. Frank didn't w...
ASHLEY HEDGES It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
ROBERT DUVALL The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or...
ALEX PETTYFER You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a b...
STEVE BROWN It is no big deal. I like to help kids. I like traditions.
DENNIS ROBERTS You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building ...
FRANK GEHRY I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a ...
TODD PHILLIPS I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I&#...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play...
CAMERON MONAGHAN My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movi...
FAYE DUNAWAY It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal,...
KATY PERRY I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can...
LUKE WILSON If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the s...
J. R. MARTINEZ Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortuna...
THIERRY HENRY It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.
DAVE NAVARRO A deal like this could eliminate a big swing factor and make its earnings structure more stable. I c...
FUMIO OSANAI Dodger Stadium is not an antique. It's not Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a nice place to play bas...
ALAN CASDEN I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.
DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, ...
BONNIE HUNT If I was Harper right now, I'd go right into Quebec and hold big rallies. Big balloons and marching ...
ALLAN GREGG But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
NEIL INNES I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-c...
PARKER STEVENSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES 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 For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melo...
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...
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SANDRA BULLOCK I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college,...
J. D. SOUTHER My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viabl...
BRYCE COURTENAY Whoever it is who's filtering stuff makes it seem like women want to be more than men. My unders...
ALEXA CHUNG I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a...
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FRANK ZAPPA I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
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...
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FRANK ZAPPA Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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FRANK ZAPPA A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
FRANK ZAPPA Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed and permanently set.
FRANK ZAPPA Out of my mind! Back in five minutes.
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FRANK ZAPPA A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs tr...
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FRANK ZAPPA In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
FRANK ZAPPA Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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FRANK ZAPPA If we were the Monkees, we'd be ready by now.
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FRANK ZAPPA Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something,...
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FRANK ZAPPA Movin' to Montana soon Gonna be a dental floss tycoon
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FRANK ZAPPA I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out ther...
FRANK ZAPPA Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
FRANK ZAPPA The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable.
FRANK ZAPPA Jesus will think you're a jerk. And it would be true.
FRANK ZAPPA If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine- but to hang a...
FRANK ZAPPA No, I don't think people really give a shit about that (meeting one's maker) unless they're complete...
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AHMET ZAPPA Those Jesus freaks, well they're friendly but, the shit they believe has got their minds all shut
FRANK ZAPPA Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not
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FRANK ZAPPA Do you love it - do you hate it? There it is the way you made it
FRANK ZAPPA too expensive and too violent.
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FRANK ZAPPA The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place ...
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FRANK ZAPPA If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep
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FRANK ZAPPA Anything, Any time, Anywhere - for no Reason at All.
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FRANK ZAPPA There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the...
FRANK ZAPPA Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
FRANK ZAPPA I'm vile and perverted.
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FRANK ZAPPA It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
FRANK ZAPPA Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget ab...
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FRANK ZAPPA A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.
FRANK ZAPPA May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
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MOON UNIT ZAPPA I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA Gag me with a spoon!
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MOON UNIT ZAPPA The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
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