Frank Zappa Quote

KissMyAss · Post by **KissMyAss** » Mon May 21, 2012 5:29 pm

This is a good one

shramiac · Post by **shramiac** » Mon May 21, 2012 9:19 pm

Hey I guess, You Are What You Is!!!!

Post by **Genebaby** » Mon May 21, 2012 10:51 pm

Yeah, fair enough. I'll pay that.

erg2 · Post by **erg2** » Tue May 22, 2012 7:11 am

I love me some Zappa. I haven't queued him up in a while. Must do that tonight.

ankh · Post by **ankh** » Tue May 22, 2012 4:41 pm

"Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

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

There’s no reason to assume that my idea of what‘s better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don’t think they know. And I can’t see any authority on the horizon that’s got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health.

The cool-person syndrome is peculiarly American. Part of that has to do with the way the educational business is run in the U. S. It’s not based on how much you can teach your child: it’s based on how much money the suppliers of basic materials can make off your child. Somewhere along the line most people pick up the desire to be a cool person, which is just another way to make them buy things. Once you’ve decided that you need to be a cool person, it makes you a possible victim of anyone whose products are the equivalent of bottled smoke. Somebody tells you to buy this particularly useless item and you’ll be a cool person. No matter how stupid it seems, you have to buy it. Pet Rocks. Pringle’s potato chips. whatever it is — the newest, the latest. Since the cool-person thing is something you learn in school, and since the school business is pretty suspicious and definitely tied up with the government, it makes you wonder whether or not the desire to be cool is part of a government plot to make you buy stupid things.

There isn’t anything weird about my music. Weird is a skeleton in the closet, wearing a rubber mask with warts all over its nose, and all that kind of shit. That’s not what I do. The thing that makes my music unusual is that people only hear one kind of music all the time over the radio. It’s wallpaper to their lives. Audile wallpaper. There’s one acceptable beat and there are three acceptable chord progressions. There are five acceptable words: baby, love, tears, yat yat. Just because I don’t deal in those terms doesn’t mean I’m weird. So tell these people: I ain’t weird; I’m rational. I’m a person who can choose to write stuff like that, or choose to write stuff that includes all the notes on the piano played at once, followed by a cement truck driving over the piano, followed by a small atomic explosion. Nothing weird about that as long as you do it in a meaningful way.

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!"

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?”

better stop now.

Frank- thanks for the music and the knowledge.

shramiac · Post by **shramiac** » Tue May 22, 2012 6:04 pm

Musical genius BUT..........I can't listen to it! Though I haven't heard that much to be truthful.

I can't stand You Are What You Is though!

Post by **Genebaby** » Wed May 23, 2012 8:26 am

Good words but I've never been a fan of his music either. Like a few things Dweezil has done though.

I remember when he did this back in the day:

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And I like this song with his sister:

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He's playing his Charvel, which is nice. Check out the cameos from a chick who went on to be on Melrose Place and Robert Wagner!

shramiac · Post by **shramiac** » Wed May 23, 2012 8:45 am

She was on Robert Wagner????????????????

Post by **Genebaby** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:34 pm

No, Robert is in the second video with Dweezin and Moon Unit.

ankh · Post by **ankh** » Wed May 23, 2012 4:44 pm

listen to the words............

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here they were doing a cover of the allman bros:
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and another cover, listen to the solo

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Zappa's music takes a while to get used to, but it's incredible.Funny thing, after a while, the music you were listening to before sounds weird........... and often boring.