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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  

✵ 21. december 1940 – 4. december 1993   •   Ďalšie mená แฟรงก์ แซปพา
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“So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there’s no way you’re gonna find out what it means.”

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Oui interview (1979)

“You know, people are basically shitty. It’s when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.”

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Oui interview (1979)

“Do you think you are protecting somebody by taking away seven words?”

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Crossfire debate on censorship (1986)

“On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.”

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Liner notes for the album Freak Out! (27 June 1966).

“My solos are speech-influenced rhythmically; and harmonically, they're either pentatonic, or poly-scale oriented. And there's the mixolydian mode that I also use a lot…But I'm more interested in melodic things I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.”

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As quoted in The Guitar Handbook (2002) by Ralph Denyer, p. 102

“You're an asshole! You're an asshole!
That's right!
You're an asshole! You're an asshole!
Yes yes!”

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"Broken Hearts are for Assholes"
"Sheik Yerbouti" (1979)
Varianta: You're an asshole, You're an asshole, that's right! You're an asshole, You're an asshole, yes yes!

“There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!”

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"Jumbo Go Away".
You Are What You Is (1981)

“After all, he wrote this book here, and in the book it says he made us all to be just like him! So if we're dumb, then God is dumb — and maybe even a little ugly on the side.”

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Dumb All Over.
You Are What You Is (1981)

“Watch out where the huskies go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow.”

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"Don't Eat The Yellow Snow".
Apostrophe (') (1974)

“You say your life's a bum deal 'n yer up against the wall. Well, people, you ain't even got no deal at all. 'Cause what they do in Washington. They just takes care of Number One. An' Number One ain't you. You ain't even Number Two!”

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"The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing"
You Are What You Is (1981)

“There is no hell. There is only France.”

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"Church Chat" - Lyrics http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/You_Can't_Do_That_On_Stage_Anymore_Vol_4.html#Church
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore (1991)

“When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.”

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Appearance on Thicke of the Night (28 April 1984).

“To me, absurdity is the only reality.”

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As quoted a review of This door is too small (for a bear) (2010) http://www.needcompany.org/cgi-bin/www_edit/projects/nc/scripts/nc.cgi?session=38&a=v&t=EN&id=11029

“Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.”

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Interview at Swedish Radio, programme Nightflite (circus 1980) http://home.swipnet.se/bengt-jonsson/zappaint.htm#Bobby

“Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.”

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Interview on Channel 4 (1 June 1983) - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFjZOeL10MA&NR

“On Ventura, there she goes
She just bought some bitch'n clothes
Tosses her head n flips her hair
She got a whole bunch of nothin in there”

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"Valley Girl"
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982)

“Every socialistic type of government… produces bad art, produces social inertia, produces really unhappy people, and it's more repressive than any other kind of government.”

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Interview, "My Afternoon with Frank Zappa", Larry Rogak, (New York writer and attorney) Zappa.com (May 8, 1980) http://www.zappa.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11831

“So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day”

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"Trouble Every Day".
Freak Out! (1966)

“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent 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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The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)

“I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.”

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Appearance on CBS Morning News (18 September 1985) - YouTube video http://youtube.com/watch?v=LD1DI2SntFI

“We're not talking light-hearted foolishness here — when we go for stupid we go for BIG STUPID — like people who shoot at you on the freeway, or the Rambos and Rambo-ettes who blow people away in shopping malls and fast-food restaurants with automatic weapons.”

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Zdroj: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 239.

“The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It's moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that's happened during the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe … I really think that. … When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very, very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun…”

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Crossfire debate on censorship (1986)

“I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set.”

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"I'm the Slime"
Over-Nite Sensation (1973)

“Why should I smile when I'm sitting here with you?”

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To John Lofton
Crossfire debate on censorship (1986)

“Shes a valley girl
In a clothing store
Okay, fine…
Fer sure, fer sure.”

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"Valley Girl" (co-written with Moon Zappa).
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982)

“The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball…I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.”

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Zdroj: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 144.

“I've smoked ten marijuana cigarettes in my life, and probably the last time I had one near my face was twelve, fifteen years ago. And the reason I did was because, since I do smoke, people would say, "Here, smoke this, you'll get high." So I smoked it, and it gave me a sore throat and made me sleepy. And I must either presume that that's what high means, or something was wrong. But I've never had a positive result from smoking marijuana. It just wasn't my cup of tea. And I never used LSD, never used cocaine, never used heroin or any of that other stuff.”

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Rolling Stone interview (1988)

“The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.”

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Appearance on The Howard Stern Show (1987).

“And it's the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yellin' "You can't understand me!"
'N all that other jazz they hand me
In the papers and TV and
All that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don't appeal to him
(No matter if it's black or white)
Because he's out for blood tonight.”

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"Trouble Every Day"
Freak Out! (1966)