Frank Zappa Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Writing, Air

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

• Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

  Frank Zappa

  Love, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Packard Goose

• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Music, People

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

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Time, Bills

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

• The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Drama, Guitar

• Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Clouds, Air

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

• Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Smell, Free Jazz

  Song: Be-Bop Tango, 1974

• There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

  Frank Zappa

  Love, Music, Marriage

• Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Music, Humorous

• Music is always a commentary on society.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Music Is, Commentary

• Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Hands, Fishing

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

• If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Art, States

• Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Long, People

  "Song: 'Cocaine Decisions'". 1983.

• Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Art, Believe

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

• The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Smart, Rocks

• Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Sports, Clouds

• The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

  Frank Zappa

  Movie, Music, Art

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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