Dweezil Zappa Quotes

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.

I write on all instruments.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

I just can't read music.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.

I know how to read music, watching my mom and listening to Mom play music.

After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I'm finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning how to play over chord changes.

I'm a composer, man.

I've written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I'll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time, I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little - music changes into something else when you read it.

Singing is something that I have learnt. I have given exams for it.

With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

Being a musician, there aren't that many ways for me to consciously use a more strategy, math-based part of my brain.

I started officially learning music when I was 14. I learnt Hindustani classical.

I never jump on to a song and say 'I will only sing it.' I am not too obsessed as a singer. I am happy being a composer.