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
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a "temporary license to exist" - in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy you own the government - it doesn't own you. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the "pursuit" is in progress.
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
Jesus will think you're a jerk. And it would be true.
I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa.
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity
Anything, Any time, Anywhere - for no Reason at All.
Do you love it - do you hate it? There it is the way you made it
Some people crave baseball - I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
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.
Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.