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Frank Vincent Zappa, známy ako Frank Zappa bol americký hudobník, kapelník, hudobný skladateľ, producent, gitarista a filmár. Jeho práca bola charakteristická nekonformným prístupom, voľnými improvizáciami, experimentovaním so zvukmi, hudobnou virtuozitou a satirickým pohľadom na americkú kultúru. V svojej viac ako 30 ročnej kariére sa venoval viacerým hudobným žánrom. Komponoval rockovú, popovú hudbu, džez, či jazz fusion, orchestrálne diela modernej klasickej hudby, rockovej opery, práce v štýle musique concrète, absurdity a príkreho, satirického humoru. Je producentom väčšiny z viac ako 60 albumov, ktoré vydal ako sólový hudobník, alebo so svojou skupinou The Mothers of Invention. Je považovaný za jedného z najviac inovatívnych a štýlovo rôznorodých rockových hudobníkov svojej generácie. Frank Zappa režíroval aj celovečerné filmy a hudobné videá a bol autorom grafických návrhov obalov hudobných albumov.

Zappa bol hudobným samoukom, ktorý preberal vplyvy z rôznych žánrov a preto je ťažké kategorizovať jeho hudobné dielo. V mladosti čerpal inšpiráciu od skladateľov hudobnej klasiky 20. storočia ako boli Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinskij a Anton Webern ale aj z R&B 50. rokov. Klasickú hudbu začal komponovať už na gymnáziu, no v tom istom čase hrával na bicie nástroje v hudobnej skupine hrajúcej R&B. Neskôr sa preorientoval na elektrickú gitaru. V roku 1966 nahral so skupinou Mothers of Invention albumom Freak Out!. Na tomto svojom debute konvenčný rokenrol kombinoval so štúdiovou kolážou spoločných hudobných improvizácií. S takýmto eklektickým a experimentálnym prístupom pokračoval aj naďalej bez ohľadu na to, či si ako základný formát interpretácie vybral džez, rock alebo klasickú hudbu.

Hudobné nahrávky Franka Zappu sú spájané konceptuálnou kontinuitou. Sám ju nazval „Project/Object“. Má množstvo hudobných fráz, myšlienok a symbolov, ktoré sa v obnovených verziách vynárajú v jeho albumoch. Jeho texty často humorne odrážajú jeho odmietanie ikonického pohľadu na zavedené sociálne a politické procesy, štruktúry a hnutia. Zappa bol kritikom bežného stereotypného vzdelávania a organizovaného náboženstva. Zároveň bol priamym a vášnivým stúpencom slobody prejavu, sebavzdelávania, spoluúčasti na politickom dianí a zrušenia cenzúry. Oproti mnohým rockovým hudobníkom svojej generácie neužíval drogy, no podporoval ich dekriminalizáciu a regulovaný predaj.

Počas života bol Frank Zappa vysoko produktívnym, plodným umelcom. Bol rešpektovaný hudobnou kritikou, ale aj kolegami z jeho hudobnej brandže. Ako nezávislý umelec, dosahoval komerčný úspech hlavne v Európe. Ovplyvnil mnohých hudobníkov a hudobných skladateľov. Medzi jeho ocenenia patrí aj uvedenie do Rokenrolovej sieni slávy , či cena Grammy za celoživotný prínos z roku 1997. V roku 2004 časopis Rolling Stone dal Franka Zappu na 71. miesto zoznamu „Stovky najlepších hudobníkov všetkých čias“ a v roku 2011 na 22. miesto zoznamu „Stovky najlepších gitaristov všetkých čias“. Wikipedia  

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“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”

'Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)
Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
Varianta: Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny

“Without deviation, progress is not possible.”

Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)

“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…”

"Packard Goose"
"Joe's Garage Acts II & III" (1979)
Varianta: 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.

“A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.”

Frank Zappa kniha The Real Frank Zappa Book

The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)
Zdroj: The Real Frank Zappa Book

Frank Zappa citát: “It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”

“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”

Frank Zappa kniha The Real Frank Zappa Book

Zdroj: The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”

Zdroj: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 259.
Kontext: My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. Children are naive — they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

“If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.”

Varianta: If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
Zdroj: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 233.

“Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.”

Frank Zappa kniha The Real Frank Zappa Book

"Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa", in MOJO magazine (October 1993).
Varianta: Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read
Zdroj: The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world.”

Oui interview (1979)
Kontext: Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you’re smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you’re good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you’re doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

“There isn’t anything weird about my music.”

Oui interview (1979)
Kontext: There isn’t anything weird about my music. Weird is a skeleton in the closet, wearing a rubber mask with warts all over its nose, and all that kind of shit. That’s not what I do. The thing that makes my music unusual is that people only hear one kind of music all the time over the radio. It’s wallpaper to their lives. Audile wallpaper. There’s one acceptable beat and there are three acceptable chord progressions. There are five acceptable words: baby, love, tears, yat yat. Just because I don’t deal in those terms doesn’t mean I’m weird. So tell these people: I ain’t weird; I’m rational. I’m a person who can choose to write stuff like that, or choose to write stuff that includes all the notes on the piano played at once, followed by a cement truck driving over the piano, followed by a small atomic explosion. Nothing weird about that as long as you do it in a meaningful way.

“This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid.”

"My Pet Theory" on the second disc of the twin CD version
The MOFO Project/Object (2006)
Kontext: The '60s was really stupid … It was a type of merchandising, Americans had this hideous weakness, they had this desire to be OK, fun guys and gals, and they haven't come to terms with the reality of the situation: we were not created equal. Some people can do carpentry, some people can do mathematics, some people are brain surgeons and some people are winos and that's the way it is, and we're not all the same. This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid. The '60s was merchandised to the public at large... My pet theory about the '60s is that there is a sinister plot behind it... The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time.

“People are just waiting around to get certified.”

Oui interview (1979)
Kontext: Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you’re smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you’re good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you’re doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

“Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”

"Heavenly Bank Account".
You Are What You Is (1981)

“Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance; it's what makes America great!”

A appearance on The Tonight Show (29 June 1988)
Varianta: Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great!

“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”

Franz Kafka, Betrachtungen [Reflections], Number 52, (c. 1917)
Misattributed

“I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.”

Cocaine Decisions (1983) http://youtube.com/watch?v=RDEwJ2xlSXk
Kontext: I'll tell you what classical music is, for those of you who don't know. Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. And it's formula music, the same as top forty music is formula music. In order to have a piece be classical, it has to conform to academic standards that were the current norms of that day and age … I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.