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Quotes by Musician
"We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one."
"I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad."
"I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song."
"I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life."
"It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple."
"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral."
"Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something."
"I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here."
"I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself."
"When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination."
"I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it."
"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."
"Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album."
"Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that."
"We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It's just not financially possible to do so."
"There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians."
"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."
"I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure."
"About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it."
"I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses."
"It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out."
Fact,
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
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