A quote by Frank Zappa (2024)

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What is the advice of Frank Zappa? ›

It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret. 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. Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it. Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it.

Frank Zappa deserves admission to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a great guitarist, songwriter, creator of concept albums, comedian, talent scout, doo wop expert, social critic and avid misanthrope.

In fact, he didn't drink alcohol, held a robust anti-drugs approach, and loathed everything about them.

In an interview Zappa claimed that he admired the sound of Brian May's guitar. FZ praised "Bohemian Rhapsody" in a 1975-76 interview, and during a 1979-80 press conference (Copenhagen?) he said he listened to a lot of Queen tapes Moon Zappa gave him.

The term 'musical genius' is so overused as to be obsolete. Yet it's difficult not to draw on it when it comes to the story of Frank Zappa. “I would say yes, he was – as long as you put the word 'musical' there,” says Don Preston.

At the age of 52, on December 4, 1993, Frank Zappa died from complications related to prostate cancer at his Laurel Canyon home. Zappa died with his wife Gail and four children at his bedside.

Zappa is a surname. It is an occupational name meaning "farmer", from the Italian word for "hoe" (gardening tool). Notable people with the name include: Frank Zappa (1940–1993), an American musician, songwriter, composer, recording engineer, record producer and film director.

When I was a boy of 14 quote? ›

Remember the Mark Twain quote, “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day. you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark. Twain.

He was one of those rare forces whose genius extended far beyond his main medium—composing music (Zappa released 62 albums in his lifetime, a prolific feat rivaled by few others)— into politics, philosophy, and advocacy.

“I admire Zappa a bit,” Lennon said, “but he's a f*ckin' intellectual”. You'd be forgiven for thinking that a compliment, but Lennon always regarded intellectualism as anathema to rock music. In his eyes, rock was rooted in instinct and feeling, not theory and logic.

Zappa was a workaholic, a perfectionist rock star who eschewed the hippie culture of the 1960s, deploring its conformism, spurious ideals, and drug use.

An alternative-universe take on The Beatles' Sgt Pepper, complete with hilariously mocking sleeve and a cameo from a stuttering Eric Clapton, it was one of the most incisive and unforgiving satires on the whole so-called 60s 'movement'. “Everybody else thought they were God!” Zappa said of The Beatles.