Quotations From FRANK ZAPPA

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• 1.

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

  Frank Zappa (1940-1994), U.S. rock musician, and Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book, ch. 8 (1989).
  
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• 2.

  You can't be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

  Frank Zappa (1940-1993), U.S. rock musician, and Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book, ch. 12 (1989).
  
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• 3.

  It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice—there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

  Frank Zappa (1940-1993), U.S. rock musician, and Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book, ch. 9 (1989).
  
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• 4.

  Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

  Frank Zappa (1940-1994), U.S. rock musician. Chicago Tribune (Jan. 18, 1978).
  
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• 5.

  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 (1940-1994), U.S. rock musician, and Peter Occhiogrosso. Interview in The Real Frank Zappa Book, ch. 11 (1989).
  
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• 6.

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

  Frank Zappa (1940-1993), U.S. rock musician, and Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book, ch. 8 (1989).
  
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• 7.

  No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

  Frank Zappa (1940-1994), U.S. rock musician, and Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book, ch. 9 (1989). Written with Peter Occhiogrosso.
  
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• 8.

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

  Frank Zappa (1940-1994), U.S. rock musician, and Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book, ch. 8 (1989).