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
Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read
My guitar wants to kill your mama.
Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.
These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.
The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.
Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
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.
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a "temporary license to exist" - in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy you own the government - it doesn't own you. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the "pursuit" is in progress.
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