The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.

I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.

It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.

Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, which I had.

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.

Poverty deprives humanity of the basic necessities to live a meaningful life.

There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge