Around Quote by Brian Eno

Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt…

— Dweezil 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 the thing that I got most from working with Frank Zappa is that I was able to see someone who completely independent.…

— Steve Vai

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

— Scott Ian

People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

— Rick Wakeman

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

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my…

— Anne Waldman

My first influences for playing were Johnny Ramone and Jimmy Page, the same as everybody else. Joe Perry. The guys in Alice Cooper's band,…

— Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a…

— Jimmy Carl Black

I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in…

— Ry Cooder

I was growing up at a time when music was growing and changing so fast. I had learned all the big band sounds of…

— Jose Feliciano

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

— Bruce Springsteen