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Frank Zappa Quotes

"Information is not knowledge,
Knowledge is not wisdom,
Wisdom is not truth,
Truth is not beauty,
Beauty is not love,
Love is not music
and Music is the best!"
-Frank Zappa

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
- Frank Zappa

"It's fairly obvious: since Richard Nixon, that there is no such thing as a fair deal for any voter in the United States. You're just not gonna get it. It's a joke —the people that you vote for, they're the next best thing to criminals. But of course they have money for advertising campaigns that make them look a little bit better than they actually are. "
-Frank Zappa

"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."
-Frank Zappa

"After all, he [God] wrote this book here, and in the book it says he made us all to be just like him! So if we're dumb, then God is dumb - and maybe even a little ugly on the side."
-Frank Zappa

"I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.
-Frank Zappa

"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."
-Frank Zappa

"Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music."
-Frank Zappa

"For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973."
-Frank Zappa

"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice — there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. "
-Frank Zappa

"Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra, as opposed to the Bible? Who wins? "
-Frank Zappa

"The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse."
-Frank Zappa

"I'll tell you what classical music is, for those of you who don't know. Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. And it's formula music, the same as top forty music is formula music. In order to have a piece be classical, it has to conform to academic standards that were the current norms of that day and age ... 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."
-Frank Zappa

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
-Frank Zappa

"The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese."
-Frank Zappa

"The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like."
-Frank Zappa

"I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilisation, you can't just swallow it whole."
-Frank Zappa

"I don't give a fuck if they remember me at all."
-Frank Zappa

"The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. "
-Frank Zappa

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