An innovative musician and composer, Frank Zappa was known for his eclectic and often satirical approach to rock music. He blended genres ranging from jazz to classical, and his work, including albums like „Freak Out!“ and „Apostrophe,“ challenged conventional music norms.
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank ZappaYou can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank ZappaI never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank ZappaThere are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
Frank ZappaThe United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank ZappaMusic is always a commentary on society.
Frank ZappaEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaWithout deviation progress is not possible.
Frank ZappaIf you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank ZappaMost people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank ZappaI searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
Frank ZappaNo change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank ZappaArt is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank ZappaCommunism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Frank ZappaAll the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank ZappaIt isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Frank ZappaPolitics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank ZappaYou can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank ZappaMusic, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank ZappaMost rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.
Frank ZappaSome scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank ZappaThere is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank ZappaThe computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.
Frank ZappaOne of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
Frank ZappaA composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
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