Frases célebres de Frank Zappa
Frases de gente de Frank Zappa
Original: «I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird».
Fuente: Cosmo, Lepota L. Rock Love Quote - 5000 Quotations On Rock N’ Roll of Legends, Bands, Producers, Instrumentalists, Writers and Leading Vocals. Editorial Lulu Press, Inc, 2016. ISBN 9781329884830 https://books.google.es/books?id=uemcCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT313&dq=Classical+musicians+go+to+conservatories,+rock%27n+roll+musicians+go+to+the+garage&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGwIH6lZDeAhVMSsAKHUEiBBMQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Classical%20musicians%20go%20to%20conservatories%2C%20rock'n%20roll%20musicians%20go%20to%20the%20garage&f=false
Respuesta al entrevistador Nigel Leigh.
Original: «Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra, as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?»
Fuente: Frank Zappa and the And. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Editor Paul Carr. Editorial Routledge, 2016. ISBN 9781317133155, p. 50.
Fuente: Late Night Special BBC (1993); La versión americana de este documental se presentó en Biografía A & E.
Frases de fe de Frank Zappa
Fuente: Fernández, Ricardo. Nadie mejor que Zappa para definir a Zappa. El contraplano, 3 de febrero de 2017. http://elcontraplano.com/2017/02/03/nadie-mejor-que-zappa-para-definir-a-zappa/ Consultado el 18 de octubre de 2018.
Fuente: Canción Dumb All Over.
“La única diferencia entre una secta y una religión es la cantidad de bienes que poseen.”
Original: «The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own».
Fuente: Cosmo, Lepota L. Rock Love Quote - 5000 Quotations On Rock N’ Roll of Legends, Bands, Producers, Instrumentalists, Writers and Leading Vocals. Editorial Lulu Press, Inc, 2016. ISBN 9781329884830 https://books.google.es/books?id=uemcCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT313&dq=Classical+musicians+go+to+conservatories,+rock%27n+roll+musicians+go+to+the+garage&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGwIH6lZDeAhVMSsAKHUEiBBMQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Classical%20musicians%20go%20to%20conservatories%2C%20rock'n%20roll%20musicians%20go%20to%20the%20garage&f=false
Frank Zappa Frases y Citas
“El tabaco es mi vegetal favorito.”
Original: «Tobacco is my favorite vegetable».
Fuente: Kilham, Chris. The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook: The Essential Guide to Ayahuasca Journeying. Editor North Atlantic Books, 2014. ISBN 9781583947920.
Fuente: Entrevista en Today Show por Jamie Gangel, 1993. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDYzuwG-gOE
“El arte es hacer algo de la nada y venderlo.”
Original: «Art is making something out of nothing and selling it».
Fuente: Davey, Barney. How to Profit from the Art Print Market. Editorial BoldStar Communications, 2005. ISBN 9780976960706, p. 79.
Fuente: Martínez Sánchez (Mr. XEM), José María. NEUE: Tú Eres Dios. Editorial Books by Mr XEM. ISBN 9788461469086, p. 250.
“Sin desviarse de la norma, el progreso es imposible.”
Fuente: Niemeyer, Diego. El Código de las palabras, 2ª Edición, 2017. ISBN 9781549539374, p. 84.
“La estupidez tiene un cierto encanto del que la ignorancia carece.”
Fuente: Gil, Vanessa. Las perlas de Sofía: citas para estudiosos de la vida. Editor Corona Borealis, 2016. ISBN 978-84-1546-528-7, p. 229.
“La política es el departamento "Espectáculos" de la industria.”
Fuente: Las mejores citas de provocación / Best provocation sayings: contra todo y contra todos. Coña fina. Autor y editor Samuel Red. Editorial Grasindo, 2008. ISBN 9788479277802, p. 267.
“Mi música es como una película para su oído.”
Fuente: Quiralte, Yolanda. Sotto Voce. Editorial Harlequin, una división de HarperCollins Ibérica, 2016. ISBN 9788468790046.
Original: «Remember that information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not true. The truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music ... music is the best».
Fuente: Sharma, Anshuman. The Impact: The Art of Communicating Eloquently. Editor Anshuman Sharma, 2014. ISBN 9781105995217, p. 30.
Original: «The whole universe is a great joke. Everything in the universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too seriuosly».
Fuente: Uncle John's Ultimate Bathroom Reader. Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual. Autor Bathroom Readers' Institute. Editorial Simon and Schuster, 2012. ISBN 9781607106142. https://books.google.es/books?id=BilZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT219&dq=The+whole+universe+is+a+great+joke.+zappa&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_tvyuw47eAhWKJMAKHQvZDnkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20whole%20universe%20is%20a%20great%20joke.%20zappa&f=false
“La vida es como el instituto con dinero.”
Original: «Life is like a highschool with money».
Fuente: Uncle John's Ultimate Bathroom Reader. Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual. Autor Bathroom Readers' Institute. Editorial Simon and Schuster, 2012. ISBN 9781607106142. https://books.google.es/books?id=BilZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT219&dq=The+whole+universe+is+a+great+joke.+zappa&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_tvyuw47eAhWKJMAKHQvZDnkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20whole%20universe%20is%20a%20great%20joke.%20zappa&f=false
Original: «The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre».
Fuente: Hassan, Abdalla F. Media, Revolution and Politics in Egypt: The Story of an Uprising. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Editorial I.B.Tauris, 2015. ISBN 9781784532185, p. 75.
“Creo que es bueno que todavía existan libros, pero me hacen dormir.”
Versión original: «I think it's good books still exits, but they make me sleepy».
Fuente: Zappa, Frank; Occhiogrosso, Peter. Real Frank Zappa Book. Editorial Simon and Schuster, 1989. ISBN 978-06-71705-72-5, p. 9.
Original: «I consider that the building materials are exactly the same as what anybody else makes the thing out of. It's just the way they look at those materials is perhaps a narrower perspective. Time and those waves are at the disposal of anyone who wants to use them».
Fuente: Walley, David. No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa. Edición ilustrada, reimpresa. Editorial Da Capo Press, 1996 ISBN 978-03-0680-710-7, p. 3.
Original: «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».
Fuente: Zappa, Frank; Occhiogrosso, Peter. Real Frank Zappa Book. Edición reimpresa. Editorial Simon and Schuster, 1989. ISBN 9780671705725, p. 239.
Original: «Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute».
Fuente: Tusman, Lee (ed.). Really Free Culture: Anarchist Communities, Radicals Moviments and Public Practices. Editorial PediaPress, p. 183.
Fuente: Notas del álbum Freak Out! (27 de junio de 1966).
Frank Zappa: Frases en inglés
“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)
“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”
'Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)
Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
Variante: Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny
"Packard Goose"
"Joe's Garage Acts II & III" (1979)
Variante: 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.
— Frank Zappa, libro The Real Frank Zappa Book
The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)
Fuente: The Real Frank Zappa Book
“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
— Frank Zappa, libro The Real Frank Zappa Book
Fuente: The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Without deviation, progress is not possible.”
Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)
Variante: 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.
Fuente: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 233.
— Frank Zappa, libro The Real Frank Zappa Book
"Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa", in MOJO magazine (October 1993).
Variante: 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
Fuente: The Real Frank Zappa Book
Oui interview (1979)
Contexto: 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.
“Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”
Fuente: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 259.
Contexto: 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.
“There isn’t anything weird about my music.”
Oui interview (1979)
Contexto: 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.
"My Pet Theory" on the second disc of the twin CD version
The MOFO Project/Object (2006)
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: 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)
Variante: 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
Cocaine Decisions (1983) http://youtube.com/watch?v=RDEwJ2xlSXk
Contexto: 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.
“Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me.”
When asked what amazes him about people, in an interview with Grace Slick on Rockplace (11 February 1984) - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpcvJiZUbzI
Contexto: Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart — incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.
