Quotes of: Zappa Keyword

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

Tina Weymouth

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

Ziggy Marley

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

Steve Earle

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

Ezra Koenig

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

Jimmy Rushing

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Ritchie Blackmore

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Dave Davies

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.

Esperanza Spalding

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa, composer, musician, film director (1940-1993)

Frank Zappa

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

Geezer Butler

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

Coleman Hawkins

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

Coleman Hawkins

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

Jimmy Carl Black

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

David Sanborn

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

Ezra Koenig

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

Ezra Koenig

'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.

Johnny Ramone

I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.

Joe Trohman

Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'

Dev Hynes

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

Dev Hynes

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

Ritchie Blackmore