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
My guitar wants to kill your mama.
Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.
If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you
Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.
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.
The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.
Shut Up and Play your Guitar.
If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.
Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity
Some people crave baseball - I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon
Do you love it - do you hate it? There it is the way you made it
Anything, Any time, Anywhere - for no Reason at All.