Quote

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

Frank Zappa

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
Actor
Composer
Film Director
Film Producer
Guitarist
Journalist
Musician
Record Producer
Rock Guitarist
Rock Musician
Screenwriter
Singer
Baltimore
Maryland
Frank Vincent Zappa
Ball
Balls
Jobs
Right
Work
Life
Tonight

More quotes by Frank Zappa

Image
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
Image
Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
Frank Zappa
Image
The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!
Frank Zappa
Image
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.
Frank Zappa
Image
It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner
Frank Zappa
Image
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.
Frank Zappa
Image
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.
Frank Zappa
Image
Unbind your mind, there is no time.
Frank Zappa
Image
If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.
Frank Zappa
Image
Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.
Frank Zappa
Image
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.
Frank Zappa
Image
I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.
Frank Zappa
Image
Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.
Frank Zappa
Image
I think that if you use the so-called strong words you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.
Frank Zappa
Image
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?
Frank Zappa
Image
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
Frank Zappa
Image
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
Image
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
Image
Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.
Frank Zappa
Image
I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.
Frank Zappa