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
Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)
I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.
Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.
Don't eat the yellow snow.
Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.
. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.
There is no hell, there's only France
The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.
The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe!
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.
People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly 'strange names', but the fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble.