If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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![“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 essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh.” quote by Gail Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/470/gail-zappa-26739_enough_it-s-nice-to-hear-when-someone-gets-some_999286.jpg)
![“Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.” quote by Gail Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f8/gail-zappa-26739_different_frank-zappa-always-wanted-to-do-a-sound_1969237.jpg)