Friske Frank Zappa-sitater

Joe Pyne var den første konfronterende og bøllete TV-verten, kjent for å krangle med både gjester og publikum. Han hadde et treben.
I 1966 intervjuet han Frank Zappa, og spurte helt i starten, i sin vanlige aggressive og fornærmende stil:
«Med det lange håret må du være en slags jente.»
Zappa svarte kontant:
«Med det trebeinet må du være et slags bord.»
Pyne kastet seg rasende over skrivebordet med armene utstrakt og prøve å ta kveletak på Zappa. Deretter ble skjermen svart.

Her er flere av Zappas sitater:

– 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.

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

– Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.  

– The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows. 

– There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another. 

– 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. 

– Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. 

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

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

–  Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. 

–  Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. 

–  Without deviation progress is not possible.

– There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. 

– All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. 

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

– The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. –  One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds. 

– Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. 

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

– If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. 

– You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

 – I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. 

– I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. 

– Music is always a commentary on society. 

Les flere sitater mer her.