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title: "47 Frank Zappa Quotes by 36 authors"
description: "Browse 47 Frank Zappa quotes by 36 authors. Discover the best Frank Zappa sayings and thoughts."
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> [I started making records and touring when I was 15, first with Frank Zappa's son Dweezil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-freese/i-started-making-records-and-touring-when-i-was-15-first-with-frank/)

[Josh Freese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-freese/)

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> [“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. —Frank Zappa”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-benjamin/without-deviation-from-the-norm-progress-is-not-possible-frank-zappa/)

[Oliver Benjamin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-benjamin/)

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> [My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/my-first-big-gig-was-an-opening-show-for-frank-zappa-and-i-think-that/)

[Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/)

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> [Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-ian/frank-zappa-was-beethoven-for-insane-rock-guys/)

[Scott Ian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-ian/)

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> [ My obligation is to release the music the way Frank \[Zappa\] released it. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-zappa/my-obligation-is-to-release-the-music-the-way-frank-zappa-released-it/)

[Gail Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-zappa/)

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> [The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-blackwood/the-hardest-and-worst-interview-that-i-have-ever-done-was-with-frank/)

[Nina Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-blackwood/)

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> [The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-winwood/the-mother-of-invention-in-music-is-necessity-not-frank-zappa/)

[Steve Winwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-winwood/)

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> [People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-wakeman/people-like-frank-zappa-were-amazing-for-us-brits/)

[Rick Wakeman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-wakeman/)

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> [“This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P, Tip…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-cobain/this-song-is-dedicated-to-frank-zappa-and-river-phoenix-fred-gwynne/)

[Kurt Cobain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-cobain/)

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> [My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hader/my-dad-was-a-big-frank-zappa-fan-so-i-remember-listening-to-a-lot-of/)

[Bill Hader](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-hader/)

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> [When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-vai/when-frank-zappa-would-get-an-idea-for-a-song-he-just-did-it-he-didn/)

[Steve Vai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-vai/)

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> [When I was growing up, I was always looking for the most willfully uncommercial music: Whether it was Captain Beefheart or Frank…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-wilson/when-i-was-growing-up-i-was-always-looking-for-the-most-willfully/)

[Steven Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-wilson/)

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> [ Frank \[Zappa\] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-zappa/frank-zappa-was-not-a-big-fan-of-having-lyrics-but-sometimes-he-had/)

[Gail Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-zappa/)

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> [Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-zappa/interviewer-so-frank-you-have-long-hair-does-that-make-you-a-woman/)

[Frank Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-zappa/)

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> [Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/frank-zappa-was-one-of-the-gods-of-the-czech-underground-i-thought-of/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

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> [I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cassandra-peterson/i-chased-every-band-around-the-world-frank-zappa-and-the-mothers-of/)

[Cassandra Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassandra-peterson/)

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> [One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-yankovic/one-of-my-pet-peeves-is-that-sometimes-the-talents-of-my-band-get/)

[Al Yankovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-yankovic/)

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> [I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-frusciante/i-think-a-solo-moves-forward-the-way-a-song-does-because-it-s/)

[John Frusciante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-frusciante/)

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> [Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dweezil-zappa/somebody-under-30-if-the-name-frank-zappa-came-up-they-would-just-say/)

[Dweezil Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dweezil-zappa/)

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> [It's something I've recognized in the careers of those people who have been inspiring to me over the years - Neil Young,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-wilson/it-s-something-i-ve-recognized-in-the-careers-of-those-people-who/)

[Steven Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-wilson/)

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> [There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moranis/there-s-a-long-tradition-certainly-with-country-but-in-all-kinds-of/)

[Rick Moranis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moranis/)

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> [I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stuff like that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-kurstin/i-was-in-school-with-dweezil-zappa-frank-zappa-s-son-and-we-had-a/)

[Greg Kurstin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-kurstin/)

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> [Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/libba-bray/pastoralia-by-george-saunders-possibly-my-favorite-book-its-one-of/)

[Libba Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/libba-bray/)

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> [... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ritchie-blackmore/jeff-beck-is-my-idol-sometimes-he-finds-notes-that-i-just-do-not-have/)

[Ritchie Blackmore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ritchie-blackmore/)

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> [When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-mcbride/when-you-think-of-diversity-george-duke-fits-that-bill-better-than-a/)

[Christian McBride](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-mcbride/)

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> [“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-allam/i-began-to-recall-my-own-experience-when-i-was-mercutio-s-age-late/)

[Roger Allam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-allam/)

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> [“He watched in awe as she stacked up an enormous armload of music. "There," she finished, slapping Frank Zappa's Greatest Hits on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-korman/he-watched-in-awe-as-she-stacked-up-an-enormous-armload-of-music/)

[Gordon Korman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-korman/)

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> [“Amy turned to Nellie. "Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?" The au pair was wary. "What kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-korman/amy-turned-to-nellie-can-you-create-a-diversion-to-draw-the-clerk/)

[Gordon Korman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-korman/)

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> [When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-bob-thornton/when-i-was-growing-up-when-i-was-11-years-old-i-was-listening-to-the/)

[Billy Bob Thornton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-bob-thornton/)

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> [“It is like breathing to us, and to ignore math in this story would be akin to listening to Frank Zappa without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-rojstaczer/it-is-like-breathing-to-us-and-to-ignore-math-in-this-story-would-be/)

[Stuart Rojstaczer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-rojstaczer/)

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> [I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jello-biafra/i-think-there-s-plenty-of-room-even-in-the-most-serious-activist/)

[Jello Biafra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jello-biafra/)

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> [ Frank \[Zappa\]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-zappa/frank-zappa-s-music-was-never-for-the-mass-audience-his-music/)

[Gail Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-zappa/)

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> [ Frank \[Zappa\] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-zappa/frank-zappa-said-he-probably-would-have-been-a-major-criminal-given/)

[Gail Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-zappa/)

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> [I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idara-victor/i-m-one-of-those-people-who-sees-frank-zappa-in-a-cup-of-coffee-or/)

[Idara Victor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idara-victor/)

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> [I remember playing Billy Cobham's 'Total Eclipse' for Snoop Dogg. I also played him Frank Zappa, 'Apostrophe.' And I played him 'Saint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thundercat/i-remember-playing-billy-cobham-s-total-eclipse-for-snoop-dogg-i-also/)

[Thundercat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thundercat/)

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> [People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-eno/people-like-frank-zappa-and-bryan-ferry-knew-we-could-pick-and-choose/)

[Brian Eno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-eno/)

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> [I think the thing that I got most from working with Frank Zappa is that I was able to see someone who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-vai/i-think-the-thing-that-i-got-most-from-working-with-frank-zappa-is/)

[Steve Vai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-vai/)

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> [My father was a studio musician, played for a lot of people like Frank Zappa and a lot of R&B bands, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/synyster-gates/my-father-was-a-studio-musician-played-for-a-lot-of-people-like-frank/)

[Synyster Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/synyster-gates/)

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> [There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/june-millington/there-was-a-lot-of-camaraderie-among-the-bands-i-remember-a-lot-of/)

[June Millington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/june-millington/)

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> [ Frank \[Zappa\] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-zappa/frank-zappa-always-wanted-to-do-a-sound-library-he-sampled-so-many/)

[Gail Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-zappa/)

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## Top authors on Frank Zappa

- [Gail Zappa 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/frank-zappa/gail-zappa/)

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                        "text": "Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.",
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                        "text": "... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful...",
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                        "text": "When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead jazz with people like Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley; he's played a lot of fusion with his own groups, with Stanley Clarke; and, you know, he did the rock thing with Frank Zappa. He's written all kinds of big arrangements for people like Burt Bacharach. So, he's covered the board. He's still a great pianist.",
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                        "text": "“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than Romeo) as a pupil at a public school called Christ’s Hospital. This school is situated in the idyllic countryside of the Sussex Weald, just outside Horsham. I recalled the strange blend of raucousness and intellect amongst the cloisters, the fighting, the sport, and general sense of rebelliousness, of not wishing to seem conventional (this was the sixties); in the sixth form (we were called Grecians) the rarefied atmosphere, the assumption that of course we would go to Oxford or Cambridge; the adoption of an ascetic style, of Zen Buddhism, of baroque opera, the Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa, and Mahler; of Pound, Eliot and e. e. cummings. We perceived the world completely through art and culture. We were very young, very wise, and possessed of a kind of innocent cynicism. We wore yellow stockings, knee breeches, and an ankle length dark blue coat, with silver buttons. We had read Proust, we had read Evelyn Waugh, we knew what was what. There was a sense, fostered by us and by many teachers, that we were already up there with Lamb, Coleridge, and all the other great men who had been educated there. We certainly thought that we soared ‘above a common bound’. I suppose it is a process of constant mythologizing that is attempted at any public school. Tom Brown’s Schooldays is a good example. Girls were objects of both romantic and purely sexual, fantasy; beautiful, distant, mysterious, unobtainable, and, quite simply, not there. The real vessel for emotional exchange, whether sexually expressed or not, were our own intense friendships with each other. The process of my perceptions of Mercutio intermingling with my emotional memory continued intermittently, up to and including rehearsals. I am now aware that that possibly I re-constructed my memory somewhat, mythologised it even, excising what was irrelevant, emphasising what was useful, to accord with how I was beginning to see the part, and what I wanted to express with it. What I was seeing in Mercutio was his grief and pain at impending separation from Romeo, so I suppose I sensitised myself to that period of my life when male bonding was at its strongest for me.”",
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                        "text": "“He watched in awe as she stacked up an enormous armload of music. \"There,\" she finished, slapping Frank Zappa's Greatest Hits on top of the pile. \"That should do for a start.\" \"You are a music lover,\" said the wide-eyed cashier. \"No, I'm a kleptomaniac.\" And she dashed out the door. He was so utterly shocked that it took him a moment to run after her. With a meaningful nod in the direction of the astounded Cahills, she barreled down the cobblestone street with her load. \"Fermati!\" shouted the cashier, scrambling in breathless pursuit. Nellie let a few CDs drop and watched with satisfaction over her shoulder as the clerk stopped to pick them up. The trick would be to keep the chase going just long enough for Amy and Dan to search Disco Volante. Yikes, she reflected suddenly, I'm starting to think like a Cahill… And if she was nuts enough to hang around this family, it was only going to get worse.”",
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                        "text": "“Amy turned to Nellie. \"Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?\" The au pair was wary. \"What kind of diversion?\" \"You could pretend to be lost,\" Dan proposed. \"The guy comes out to give you directions, and we slip inside.\" \"That's the most sexist idea I've ever heard,\" Nellie said harshly. \"I'm female, so I have to be clueless. He's male, so he's got a great sense of direction.\" \"Maybe you're from out of town,\" Dan suggested. \"Wait–you are from out of town.\" Nellie stashed their bags under a bench and set Saladin on the seat with a stern \"You're the watchcat. Anybody touches those bags, unleash your inner tiger.\" The Egyptian Mau surveyed the street uncertainly. \" Mrrp .\" Nellie sighed. \"Lucky for us there's no one around. Okay, I'm going in there. Be ready.\" The clerk said something to her–probably May I help you? She smiled apologetically. \"I don't speak Italian.\" \"Ah–you are American.\" His accent was heavy, but he seemed eager to please. \"I will assist you.\" He took in her black nail polish and nose ring. \"Punk, perhaps, is your enjoyment?\" \"More like a punk/reggae fusion,\" Nellie replied thoughtfully. \"With a country feel. And operatic vocals.\" The clerk stared in perplexity. Nellie began to tour the aisles, pulling out CDs left and right. \"Ah–Artic Monkeys–that's what I'm talking about. And some Bad Brains–from the eighties. Foo Fighters–I'll need a couple from those guys. And don't forget Linkin Park...\" He watched in awe as she stacked up an enormous armload of music. \"There,\" she finished, slapping Frank Zappa's Greatest Hits on top of the pile. \"That should do for a start.\" \"You are a music lover,\" said the wide-eyed cashier. \"No, I'm a kleptomaniac.\" And she dashed out the door.”",
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                        "text": "“It is like breathing to us, and to ignore math in this story would be akin to listening to Frank Zappa without ever having taken hallucinogens, an incomplete experience.”",
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