Frank Quotes by Gail Zappa

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been…

— Gail Zappa

I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.

— Gail Zappa

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and…

— Gail Zappa

It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the…

— Gail Zappa

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

— Gail Zappa

I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you…

— Gail Zappa

Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up…

— Gail Zappa

I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.

— Gail Zappa

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

— Gail Zappa

Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights,…

— Gail Zappa

It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether…

— Gail Zappa

Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave,…

— Gail Zappa