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
Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
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.
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity
I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa.