Frank Zappa
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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. 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 I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off... AHMET ZAPPA 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 miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those ... AHMET 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 I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but thin... AHMET 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 My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got ... AHMET ZAPPA I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they h... AHMET ZAPPA I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating. AHMET ZAPPA At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school wa... AHMET ZAPPA I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actuall... 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 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 MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA MOON UNIT ZAPPA boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin? FRANK ANNE FRANK FRANK IERO FRANK SINATRA FRANK SINATRA Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou... ZE FRANK I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ... ZE FRANK We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w... ZE FRANK For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back. ZE FRANK If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'... ZE FRANK I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your... ZE FRANK YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde... ZE FRANK I'm fascinated by simple joy. ZE FRANK We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't... ZE FRANK What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink... ZE FRANK I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants. ZE FRANK I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-... ZE FRANK In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat... ZE FRANK Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv... ZE FRANK Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you. ZE FRANK Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to... ZE FRANK The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie... ZE FRANK When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla... ZE FRANK On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ... ZE FRANK I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ... ZE FRANK The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again. ZE FRANK I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type... ZE FRANK Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ... ZE FRANK A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten... ZE FRANK
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