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
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read
Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny
Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
Scientology , how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?
The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Drugs will turn you into your parents.
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.