Jazz is not dead...it just smells funny.
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years? (During Reagan Years)
Interviewer: -"So
Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
FZ: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"
"Conducting'' is when you draw "designs'' in the nowhere -- with your stick, or with your hands -- which are interpreted as
"instructional messages'' by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
A world of sexual incompetents, encountering each other, under disco circumstances... Now can't you do songs about that?
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on
unsuspecting air molecules,often with the assistence of
unsuspecting musicians.
Reporter - This is a personal thing, I think that if you wanted to make top ten hits and sell millions of records, you could.
Frank Zappa - Yeah, but who wants to go through life with a tiny nose and one glove on?
For my taste, these solos (of some 50s blues guitarists) are exemplary because what is being played seems honest and, in a
musical way, a direct extension of the personality of the men who played them.
In an interview with Joan Rivers who had just asked him why he gave his
children such odd names,
Frank gave the reply- 'Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.'
Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex.
All right, Zubin, hit it!
--
Frank's onstage cue to conductor Zubin Mehta during their collaborative
effort with the L.A. Philharmonic orchestra in 1970
For some real personal satisfaction, try yelling out your own names.
--
At a concert in Boston, Massachusetts to some fans (my friends) who kept yelling out
Frank's name.
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
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In response to Tipper Gore's allegations that music incites people towards deviant behavior, or influences their behavior in general.
The concept of the rock-guitar solo in the eightees has
pretty much been reduced to: 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 the smoke bombs go off, and the
motorized lights in your truss twirl around!
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