Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture.

In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrete 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.

Date of birth:
21st December, 1940
Date of death:
4th December, 1993
"Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff."
― Frank Zappa
Topic(s): Work
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
― Frank Zappa
Topic(s): Politics
"Music is always a commentary on society."
― Frank Zappa
Topic(s): Music
"Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass."
― Frank Zappa
Topic(s): Music
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
― Frank Zappa
Topic(s): Music
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."
― Frank Zappa
Topic(s): Music
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another."
― Frank Zappa
Topic(s): Love
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
― Frank Zappa
Topic(s): Life
"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."
― Frank Zappa
Topic(s): Good
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
― Frank Zappa
Topic(s): Education

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