He was a brilliant, American rock guitarist, satirist, jazz musician, music producer, orchestral composer, innovative filmmaker,
businessperson.
Known as workaholic, perfectionist rock star who avoided the hippie
culture for its conformism, spurious ideals, and drug use.
Zappa worked in such jobs as window dresser, copywriter, and door-to-door salesperson. With the money he earned from scoring
Run Home Slow (1965) he purchased a recording studio.
Zappa testified before Congress in 1985 against rock music censorship, being appointed by Czechoslovakian president Václav
Havel, as his Cultural Liaison Officer,
(1940 - 1993)
You 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 Zappa
Music is always a commentary on society.
~ Frank Zappa
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
~ Frank Zappa
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
~ Frank Zappa
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
~ Frank Zappa
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
~ Frank Zappa
You 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 Zappa
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something,
uses that something to support their own existence.
~ Frank Zappa
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance
of unsuspecting musicians.
~ Frank Zappa
It 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 Zappa
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
~ Frank Zappa
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
~ Frank Zappa
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
~ Frank Zappa
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
~ Frank Zappa
Some 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 Zappa
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
~ Frank Zappa
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
~ Frank Zappa
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
~ Frank Zappa
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
~ Frank Zappa
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
~ Frank Zappa
Without deviation progress is not possible.
~ Frank Zappa
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
~ Frank Zappa
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
~ Frank Zappa
One 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 Zappa
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's
missing is the eyebrows.
~ Frank Zappa
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
~ Frank Zappa
Singer, performer, actress, entrepreneur who influenced numerous music artists throughout her
career and is ranked as the most successful solo artist. She has also received acclaim as a role model
for businesswomen in her industry, "achieving the kind of financial control that women had long fought
for within the industry".
(1958 - )
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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