Frank Zappa Quotes About Music
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
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The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.
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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
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Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.
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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
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If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.
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Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.
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The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
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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.
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Music is always a commentary on society.
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Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.
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Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.
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Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
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Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.
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Tighten my headband for an extra rush.
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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
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The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.
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