Frases de Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa foi um cantor, guitarrista, produtor de gravação e realizador. Em uma carreira de mais de trinta anos, a sua obra musical estendeu-se pelo rock, fusion, jazz, música eletrônica, música concreta e música clássica. Ele também dirigiu longas-metragens e videoclipes e desenhou capas de álbuns seus. Zappa produziu quase todos os seus 60 álbuns que lançou com a banda Mothers of Invention, grupo que o acompanhou por boa parte da carreira e teve sua formação mudada muitas vezes, e como artista solo.

Na adolescência, ele adquiriu um gosto por compositores de música de vanguarda baseada na percussão, como Edgard Varèse, e também pelo rhythm and blues dos anos 1950. Zappa começou a escrever música clássica no ensino médio, à mesma época em que tocava bateria em bandas de rhythm and blues - ele fez a troca para a guitarra posteriormente. Compositor e performista da sua própria música, com influências diversas, o seu trabalho é praticamente impossível de ser categorizado. O seu álbum de estreia com o Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combinava canções no formato convencional do rock and roll com improvisações coletivas e colagens de som realizadas em estúdio. Os seus últimos álbuns também continham essa abordagem eclética e experimental, independentemente de o formato fundamental ser rock, jazz ou clássica. Ele escreveu as letras de todas as suas canções, as quais - frequentemente humoristicamente - refletiam a sua visão iconoclástica dos processos sociais e políticos, estruturas e movimentos estabelecidos. Era um grande crítico do método de educação e da religiões, e um forte defensor da liberdade de expressão, da autodidática e da abolição da censura.

Zappa foi um artista altamente produtivo e prolífico e ganhou aclamação da crítica. Muitos de seus álbuns são considerados essenciais na história do rock e do jazz. Ele é considerado um dos guitarristas mais originais de seu tempo. Ele também continua sendo uma grande influência para músicos e compositores. Alcançou algum sucesso musical, particularmente na Europa, e pela maior parte de sua carreira trabalhou como artista independente. Postumamente, Zappa foi incluído no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, em 1995, e ganhou um prêmio Grammy, em 1997.

Frank Zappa faleceu, em decorrência de um câncer de próstata, em 1993. Ele teve quatro filhos: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan e Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen.

✵ 21. Dezembro 1940 – 4. Dezembro 1993   •   Outros nomes แฟรงก์ แซปพา
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Frank Zappa: 168   citações 55   Curtidas

Frank Zappa Frases famosas

“Sem um desvio do normal, progresso é impossível.”

Without deviation (from the norm), 'progress' is not possible.
The real Frank Zappa book - Página 185, Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso - Poseidon Press, 1989, ISBN 067163870X, 9780671638702, 352 páginas
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=mOHCV-QO5HA
Variante: Sem divergência, progresso não é possível.

Citações de música de Frank Zappa

“Minha música é como um cinema para os ouvidos.”

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Citações de pessoas de Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa frases e citações

“Esporte é droga. Pratique guitarra.”

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“A arte é fazer algo do nada, e ainda vendê-lo.”

Art is about making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa citado em Career Management for the Creative Person: Right-brain ... - Página 72, Lee T. Silber - 1999
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“Bêbados não marcham!”

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Frank Zappa: Frases em inglês

“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

“Without deviation, progress is not possible.”

Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)

“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…”

"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.

“A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.”

Frank Zappa livro The Real Frank Zappa Book

The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)
Fonte: The Real Frank Zappa Book

Frank Zappa citar: “It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”

“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”

Frank Zappa livro The Real Frank Zappa Book

Fonte: The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”

Fonte: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 259.
Contexto: 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.

“If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.”

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.
Fonte: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 233.

“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.”

Frank Zappa livro 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
Fonte: The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world.”

Oui interview (1979)
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: 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.

“This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid.”

"My Pet Theory" on the second disc of the twin CD version
The MOFO Project/Object (2006)
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: 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

“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.”

Cocaine Decisions (1983) http://youtube.com/watch?v=RDEwJ2xlSXk
Contexto: 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.

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