Frank Zappa

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

Jazz means many things to many people, but it’s all about choices.

It was a great thrill to listen every night and hear him on NBC radio. Les played just as great then. And then later on, in the 1950s, Les Paul turned the whole world on to guitar. He’s just a terrific, flashy, tasty guitarist.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out to him that they were impossible.

Jazz is an art that makes a person completely naked.

A guitar is something you can hold and love and it’s never going to bug you. But here’s the secret about the guitar – it’s defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.

There’s nobody plays like me and I don’t play like anybody else.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.

Every symphony, for example, is a sonata for orchestra; every string quartet is a sonata for four strings; every concerto a sonata for a solo instrument and orchestra.

I have music inside me and I’m very lucky to be able to play music and that’s the way that I try to do it.

If you follow your passions, you’ll never work a day in your life.

There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it. Blues was started by the slaves and I think everybody thinks that it all should be sad… even some of the slaves had fun with it.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.