Frank Zappa
Born: December 21, 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland
Died: December 4, 1993
FRANK VINCENT ZAPPA was quite possibly the most creative musician/composer of the 20th century. I will miss his music, his personality, his irreverence, and his iconoclastic attitude toward the "powers that be."
"I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white."
FRANK ZAPPA
"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."
FRANK ZAPPA
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
Below: 1967 ad in HULLABALOO magazine
"Information is not knowledge,
Knowledge is not wisdom,
Wisdom is not truth,
Truth is not beauty,
Beauty is not love,
Love is not music,
And music is the best."
FRANK ZAPPA
Zappa's music is better than it sounds.
A PARAPHRASE OF TWAIN'S COMMENT RE WAGNER
PHI ZAPPA KRAPPA
Left: ZAPPA testifying at the SENATE HEARINGS concerning the regulation of rock and roll lyrics.
"Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."
FRANK ZAPPA
THE INCREDIBLY RIDICULOUS
MTV-ROLLING STONE'S 100 TOP SONGS (1963-2000):
40. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, WHITNEY HOUSTON (1992)
(Whatever!)

MY TOP 100 SONGS:
BLACK NAPKIN, FRANK ZAPPA
POSTSCRIPT
"There is no great genius without a tincture of madness."
SENECA, from DE TRANQUILLITATE ANIMI
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