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
Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.
What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?
Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.
I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.
Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with a political system that wants to put idea men out of business, then you have worry on your hands.
We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
No, I don't think people really give a shit about that (meeting one's maker) unless they're completely bamboozled by religious superstition - to live your life in planning for this good time you're going to have in the sky
I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa.
Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk
Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny
Jesus will think you're a jerk. And it would be true.
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read