Phrases

"I never set out to be weird. Its was always other people who called me weird"

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

"I enjoy doing anything that is theoretically impossible and making it work."

"I never took a shit on stage, and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn Buffet in North Carolina, in 1973"

- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)

"...I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck, God! You've got your hands full this time."

- Terry Gilliam

"Frank Zappa is a rock musician who seems to defy categorization. He writes symphonic music, deplores drug use, and champions individual rights..."

- Steve Lyons

"... I thought of Frank Zappa as a friend. Meeting him was like entering a different world from the one I live as President. Whenever I feel like escaping from that world - in my mind, at least - I think of him."

- Václav Havel

"...Frank Zappa is a hero for anyone who thinks that the class system, along with its high/low cultural divide, is something that needs dismantling."

- Ben Watson

"The present day composer refuses to die!"

- Edgard Varèse