Dweezil Zappa famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Music #Kids #Levels
I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Love #Tasks #Generations
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Memories #Player #Reality
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Song #Writing #Reality
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Music #Rocks #Views
The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Creativity #Play #People
Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Work #People #Wells
And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Dad #Player #Ideas
I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Song #Mean #Player
I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Father #Voice #Found
I'm game for anything fun.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Fun #Games
If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Fun #Done
On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Golf #Average #Car
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Dad #Imagination #Details
I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Dad #People #Missing
Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Sound #Tails #Gears
I don't care about a social life.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Care #Social
There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Differences #People #Mind
Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Mean #Sound #Wells
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Song #Guitar #Were Not Meant To Be
Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the album, because I hate to be in a smoke-filled, loud room - that's not enjoyable for me at all...I always look up to guys who can sit and do dinner music...they're singing in tune and playing somebody else's music, and I don't think I could do that...it's the shittiest job in the world.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Jobs #Hate #Home
The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Different #Elements #Definitions
Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Time #Couple #Dad
There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Father #People #Misunderstood
The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Music #Magazines #Radio
Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Fun #Business #Mean
I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Change #Names #Strange

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