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] 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

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

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

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

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

- 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…

- 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 …

- Gail Zappa

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

- Gail Zappa