Frank Zappa Rock musician
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Dec 21, 1940
- Died: Dec 4, 1993
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, composer, recording engineer, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, along with 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; he later switched to electric guitar.
Zappa was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often difficult to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages.
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
music
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
good & music
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
design
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
music
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
love & music
Music is always a commentary on society.
music & society
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
education
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
politics
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
music & time
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
change
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
work
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
art