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Frank Zappa Quotes about Music

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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.

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.

Love, Music, Wisdom

Song: Packard Goose

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

Music, Time, Bills

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

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

Music, Writing, Air

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

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

Love, Music, Marriage

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

Music, Clouds, Air

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

Music is always a commentary on society.

Music, Music Is, Commentary

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.

Music, Sports, Clouds

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.

Music, Drama, Guitar

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

Music, Art, States

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Music, Smell, Free Jazz

Song: Be-Bop Tango, 1974

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.

Music, Art, Believe

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

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

Funny, Music, Humorous

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

Funny, Music, People

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.

Movie, Music, Art

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

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

Music, Smart, Rocks

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.

Music, Hands, Fishing

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

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

Music, Long, People

"Song: 'Cocaine Decisions'". 1983.

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