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Frank Zappa on Music

1940–1993 United States

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The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time. Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic … in terms of music history.

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

Oui interview (1979)

There isn’t anything weird about my music.

Oui interview (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frank Zappa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.