Dweezil Zappa Quotes

I play no instruments.

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

I worked extremely hard at my craft and at being a good songwriter, being a good guitar player, being a good organist, because I didn't think people would take me seriously.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

Music is my sport, and I'm the number-one athlete.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

I like to believe that I play bass like Dusty Hill, and that's something nobody else can do as well as me. I'm the best Dusty Hill I know.

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.

If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don't want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.

I love playing music and I'm serious about It. But It's not brain surgery.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.