Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappawas an American musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth21 December 1940
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.
I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.
Information doesn't kill you.
There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.
If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap
. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.
Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.
I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.
Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.
One size does not fit all.
I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.
We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of reliance on governing functions. Most people don’t want to come to terms with that. It’s been proven over and over again that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes, but most people don’t like to look at naked emperors. In the process of turning around to avert their eyes, they saw the discotheques and a few other things and latched onto them