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
We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
You're baloney without the mayo.
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity
Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.
A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.
Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.
Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.
All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.
There isn't anything weird about my music.
What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.
I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.
Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.