Frank Zappa excellent quotes

Frank Zappa was very clear about what he thought
about many things- from art and music to politics
and censorship in the USA.
What he said was always informed
and worthy of consideration...









“You can’t write a chord ugly enough to say
what you want sometimes, so you have
to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise
a happy, mentally healthy child is:

Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”

 

“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.”

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful,
is the basic building block of the universe.
I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen,
and that is the basic building block of the universe.”

At a Congressional hearing about parental advisory labels
on records, Frank said to Tipper Gore,

“May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.”







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Don van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart (2)

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did.
I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

If you want to be a different fish,
you got to jump out of the school.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for.
It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

The way I keep in touch with the world is gingerly,
because the world touches too hard.

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

I don't do lullabyes.

I think Shakespeare is really the one.
Words as music and music as words.
Everything he wrote was good,
which is really frightening.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog
how a human should be.











An artist is one who kids himself the most gracefully.

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Amazing Quotes on Music

“When you make music or write or create, it's really
your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless
sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
– Lady Gaga




“I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.”
– Ella Fitzgerald





“There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do
is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
– Johann Sebastian Bach





“Master your instrument. Master the music.
And then forget all that bullshit and just play.”
– Charlie Parker




“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question
of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really
mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer.
On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle
on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right
music very loud on the radio.”
– Hunter S. Thompson





“I can’t stand Beyoncé.”
- Etta James









“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
– Tom Waits





“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
– Marilyn Manson




“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven






“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
– Frank Zappa




“The only truth is music.”
– Jack Kerouac





“Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most
part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives
that they have heard it.”
– Henry David Thoreau




“I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.”
– Ani DiFranco








“Listen, sonny, I was writing before you were a glint on your father’s dick.
Don’t you tell me how to write songs.”
- Keith Richards (to some figure in the music business)






“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins.
Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?”
– Michael Jackson








“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem
to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very
shortly you discover that there is no reason.”
- John Cage





“At least I’m not opening for a cunt like Kanye.”
- Amy Winehouse







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Who the hell are the Ramones?

When people asked that question back in 1974,
the Ramones had this fancy bio ready to answer
that very musical question...

...of course, major labels don't use so many words.

"so punky"?

eeeewwwww


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Music & books

music, books and young, impressionable minds...
as history has shown, it's a dangerous combination.

rock
+ roll
+ dope
+dolls
x the need for kicks
__________________

= real gone guys

those disco dykes are bad news, mate.

note how careless they are with
what could one day be priceless collectables!

strangely, Ted Nugent remains illiterate.

reis ipsi loquitar.

within a few years, there would be Sex Pistols.

note the sax and double bass
helping to warp her desires.

folksinging? say no more.

hell. kind of covers it.

need a title for your 'hit song'?

jazz is all about sin, isn't it?

whatever.

blues is not just music, you know.

looks like that jazz guy again.

bongos. right...















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the sound of Muhammad Ali

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Jazz is...

inspiration and insight
from mr. thurston moore...

No matter how you listen to it
JAZZ is ostensibly about FREEDOM.

FREEDOM and the MYSTERY surrounding it.

And, like MUSIC, it is an ABSTRACT.

It's SHAPES, FORMS (SOUNDS!) are DISTINCT
and PERSONAL and SENSITIVE
to each player's DESIRE.

And the DESIRE is INFINITE.

FREEDOM is not just another word
for nothing left to lose.

We know this from MESSAGES beamed
from the space-lantern of his cosmic
highness SUN RA!

The MESSAGE was clear:
"NOTHING IS."

for more on this fascinating theme,
head over here

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