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Adelaide Gail Zappa (née Sloatman; January 1, 1945 – October 7, 2015) was the wife of musician and composer Frank Zappa and the trustee of the Zappa Family Trust. They met in Los Angeles in 1966 and married while she was pregnant with their first child, Moon, later followed by Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva.

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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.

Thinking, Identity, Claims, Messing, Theft

It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.

Move, Moving, Music, Play, Thing, Writing

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

Based, Pieces, Single, Singles, Writing

I think it's okay that there's digital music out there, because that does mean more people have access. I mean, you're a student, and you're studying music, and you want to find a CD of a whole work, but there's one piece that intrigues you. It's easy to get that piece for a dollar for the most part. And it's so easy for people to carry around music digitally.

Access, Cds, Mean, Thinking, Whole

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

America, Composers, Jobs, Problem

When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and how many copies. So I want nothing less.

Copies, Deals, Distribution, Records, Sell, Want

It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh.

Essence, Laughing, Nice, Notes, Sincerity, Wrong

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.

Frank, Information, Mass, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Roll

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.

Husband, Past, Would Be, Recorded, Dreamed, Content

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

Jobs, People, Musician, Nature, Musicians

Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.

Ears, Ideas, Live Concerts, Musical, Receptive, Train

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.

Apples, Digital, Issue, Issues, Rights

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.

Brain, Criminals, Detail, Details, Help, Probably