#hi

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#finds #help #i #i think #itself

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#bunch #could #creativity #else #food

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#because #been #father #filtered #like

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#around #band #couple #dad #ear

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#also #complex #composing #fantastic #frank

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#already #change #favorite #minds #only

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#making #nothing #out #selling #something

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#air #into #performance #sculpted #sculpture

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#chord #cream #enough #filled #giraffe

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#believes #everybody #existence #fact #own