Dweezil Zappa
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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 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 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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AHMET ZAPPA The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't ... AHMET ZAPPA My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, ... AHMET ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of... FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR.
I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was... 
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth... 
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was ... 
I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes ... 
I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn... 
The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard yo... 
I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified ac... 
I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with produ... 
I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they... 
If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents ... 
My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful,... 
'Kiss Land' wasn't about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mi... 
My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and it was 'coded': it was called '... 
I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23... 
I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into ... 
I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Execu... 
With 'Bangarang,' I didn't make any announcement, no campaign. I just put it on my Faceb... 
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survive... 
I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... 
'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doi... 
I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. 
I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable... 
I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i... 
I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, eit... 
It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people... 
I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd eve... 
I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as ... 
I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what ... 
I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these thing... 
I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that... 
I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or acc... 
If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably ... 
Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident t... 
I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of t... 
I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I di... 
From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could t... 
I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of ... 
The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' ... 
My theory in the '90s was that I didn't want to take a Jane Austen book I loved and reduce i... 
I liked 'The Help,' and I love Viola Davis. But I didn't think that film was a great fil... 
I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and ... 
I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other ... 
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it di... 
I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical ... 
Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u... 
I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled... 
I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the... 
Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u... 
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did... 
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. 
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. 
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. 
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. 
Gag me with a spoon! 