Dweezil Zappa Quotes

I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

I play a bunch of instruments.

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

As I grow older, I just want to be a better musician, to play more.

I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of music as interests them. Even if you decide that you're never going to compose, you will be a better performer if you concern yourself with the craft of composition.

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.