da Cocaine decisions, in The man from Utopia; 2011
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Frank Zappa frasi celebri
“La religione è uno dei maggiori ostacoli che dobbiamo affrontare nel mondo d'oggi.”
citato in Frank Zappa. For president!
da un'intervista a David Scheff per Playboy, aprile 1993; citato in Frank Zappa. For president!
citato in Frank Zappa e Peter Occhiogrosso, Frank Zappa l'autobiografia
da Packard Goose in Joe's garage
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.
Origine: Zappa modifica la poesia Ode on a Grecian Urn (Ode su un'urna greca), di John Keats
Frank Zappa Frasi e Citazioni
“Le ultime elezioni hanno posto le basi per i prossimi 500 anni di medioevo.”
citato in The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Dio abbia misericordia degli inglesi per il cibo orribile che questa gente deve mangiare.”
da Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
“Qualsiasi scemo può comporre una rima, i cowboy lo fanno tutto il tempo.”
da Rhymin'man, in Broadway the hard way; 2011
citato in The Real Frank Zappa Book
da un'intervista di Ben Watson, Mojo Magazine, ottobre 1993
da un articolo su High Times, dicembre 1989; citato in Frank Zappa. For president!
citato in Playboy, 2 maggio 1993
“La mente umana è come un paracadute: funziona solo quando è aperta.”
citato in Il Mattino, 14 maggio 2010, p. 25; attribuita anche a Thomas Dewar e Albert Einstein
citato in The Frank Zappa Interview Picture Dis
da un'intervista in occasione della pubblicazione dell'album Does Humor Belong In Music?
Origine: Vedi Does Humor Belong In Music? http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videos/Does_Humor_Belong_In_Music.html, in Globalia.net
“Perché devi aver per forza torto solo se alcuni milioni di persone pensano così?”
citato in The Real Frank Zappa Book
citato in The Real Frank Zappa Book
dalla rivista Music, 1985; citato in Frank Zappa. For president!
); 2011
“Non esiste l'inferno. Esiste la Francia.”
dall'album You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
citato in Frank Zappa. For president!
dalla rivista Downbeat; citato in Frank Zappa. For president!
da un'intervista sul periodico Oui, aprile 1979; citato in Frank Zappa. For president!
citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, settembre 1997
“Sono stanco di suonare davanti a gente che applaude per il motivo sbagliato.”
citato in Billy James, Necessity is...
da What's the ugliest part of your body?, in We're only in it for the money; 2011
da Hungry freaks, in Freak out!; 2011
“Non sei quello che sei | Quindi, guarda ciò che hai | Sei quello che è | E questo è quanto.”
da You are what you is, in You are what you is; 2011
da Catholic girls, in Joe's garage; 2011
da un'intervista rilasciata nel 1984; citato in Guitar Heroes, p. 14
da Bobby Brown
Origine: Oh God I am the American dream | I do not think I'm too extreme | & I'm a handsome son of a bitch | I'm gonna get a good job & be real rich.
Frank Zappa: Frasi in inglese
“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)
“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”
'Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)
Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
Variante: Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny
"Packard Goose"
"Joe's Garage Acts II & III" (1979)
Variante: 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
libro
The Real Frank Zappa Book
The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)
Origine: The Real Frank Zappa Book
“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
Frank Zappa
libro
The Real Frank Zappa Book
Origine: The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”
Origine: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 259.
Contesto: 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. Children are naive — they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.
Variante: If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
Origine: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 233.
Frank Zappa
libro
The Real Frank Zappa Book
"Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa", in MOJO magazine (October 1993).
Variante: Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read
Origine: The Real Frank Zappa Book
Oui interview (1979)
Contesto: Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you’re smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you’re good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you’re doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.
“There isn’t anything weird about my music.”
Oui interview (1979)
Contesto: 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.
"My Pet Theory" on the second disc of the twin CD version
The MOFO Project/Object (2006)
Contesto: The '60s was really stupid … It was a type of merchandising, Americans had this hideous weakness, they had this desire to be OK, fun guys and gals, and they haven't come to terms with the reality of the situation: we were not created equal. Some people can do carpentry, some people can do mathematics, some people are brain surgeons and some people are winos and that's the way it is, and we're not all the same. This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid. The '60s was merchandised to the public at large... My pet theory about the '60s is that there is a sinister plot behind it... The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time.
“People are just waiting around to get certified.”
Oui interview (1979)
Contesto: Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you’re smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you’re good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you’re doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.
“Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
"Heavenly Bank Account".
You Are What You Is (1981)
“Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance; it's what makes America great!”
A appearance on The Tonight Show (29 June 1988)
Variante: Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great!
“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”
Franz Kafka, Betrachtungen [Reflections], Number 52, (c. 1917)
Misattributed
Cocaine Decisions (1983) http://youtube.com/watch?v=RDEwJ2xlSXk
Contesto: 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.
