12 Zappa Quotes for You to Enjoy

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult. Tom Waits

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I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument. John Frusciante

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Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn't want to do. I'm very grateful to him, actually. Brian Eno

It's something I've recognized in the careers of those people who have been inspiring to me over the years - Neil Young, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and Prince. These are all people who constantly redefined themselves, and had to deal with the difficulty of trying to take their audience with them when they did that. Steven Wilson

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There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford. Rick Moranis

I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence. Yngwie Malmsteen

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People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits. Rick Wakeman

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My father was a studio musician, played for a lot of people like Frank Zappa and a lot of R&B bands, and was always gone doing that. Then when he was home, he was practicing. And so I always saw it, and I always wanted to do what he did. Synyster Gates

I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life. Jimmy Carl Black

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa. Nina Blackwood

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