Quotes of: Zappa Keyword

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Mose Allison

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

Mose Allison

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

Mose Allison

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Mose Allison

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

Robin Trower

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.

Robin Trower

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

Robin Trower

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

Robin Trower

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Matthew Shipp

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

Miroslav Vitous

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

Charlie Watts

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

Michael Franti

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

Bon Scott

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

Bobby Vinton

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

Charlie Rich

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.

Grace Slick

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Jonathan Davis

You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation - whether it's a poker game or a bobsled team or a band - it's gonna change things. And sometimes significantly.

Les Claypool

I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

Laura Marling

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

Charlie Hunter

There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change lives, and there's certain songs that you know that are not going to be that serious.

Tyler Farr