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 know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.
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… - 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, not just one…
- 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 rol… - 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 rol…
Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, whic… - 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, whic…
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
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.
Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next reco… - 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 or the next reco…
I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit. - Gail Zappa
I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.
It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ … - Gail Zappa
It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ …
Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But b… - 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 a composer. But b…
Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job. - Gail Zappa
Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.
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