ZAPPA

[uncledude]

I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too. For I'm destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away. I'll 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 oozing out of your TV set.


Frank Zappa

 

[uncledude]

1. “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.”
2. “Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.”
3. “Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”
4. “Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
5. “One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.”
6. “You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”
7. “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
8. “There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.”
9. “The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.”
10. “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”

 

[littledog1]

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

 

[uncledude]

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?


Frank Zappa

 

[Vertu]

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?


Frank Zappa

Even music can't overcome original sin.

 

[Edna]

Ah yes — a wickedly sharp verse from the legend himself, Frank Zappa! That’s from “I’m the Slime”, his 1973 track tearing into mass media with biting satire.
"You will obey me while I lead you, and eat the garbage that I feed you..."
Zappa really said: “You think it's just entertainment? Nope. It’s industrial-grade mind goo.”