Dweezil Zappa Quotes
"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
(Related: Humor, Music, Memory, Patience, Play, Reality, Sense)
"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
(Related: Music, Work, Words)
"Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that."
- Dweezil Zappa
(Related: Work, People)
"We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It's just not financially possible to do so."
- Dweezil Zappa
(Related: Months, Songs, Will)
"There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians."
- Dweezil Zappa
(Related: People, Difference, Musicians, Popular)
"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
(Related: Music, Work, People, Father)
"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
(Related: Time, Work, Dad, Guitar, Practice, Pretty, Right)
"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
"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
(Related: Change, Time, Internet, Name, Will)
"About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it."
- Dweezil Zappa
(Related: End, Manufacturing, Now, Right)
"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
(Related: Dad, Idea, Play)
"The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship."
- Dweezil Zappa
(Related: Music, Time, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Love, Music, Generations)
"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
(Related: Music, Kids, Want)
"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
(Related: Guitar, Play, Songs)
"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
(Related: Guitar, Reality, Right, Song, Voice)
"It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out."
- Dweezil Zappa
(Related: Fact)
"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
(Related: Guitar, Learning, Songs)
"Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal."
- Dweezil Zappa
(Related: Play)