弗兰克·扎帕(Frank Vincent Zappa，1940年12月21日-1993年12月4日)是美国作曲家、创作歌手、电吉他手、唱片制作人、电影导演。在他超过30年的职业生涯中，他的音乐作品涵盖了摇滚、爵士、电子、管弦乐和具体音乐等风格。同时弗兰克·扎帕还参与导演长片电影和音乐视频，设计专辑封面等事业。他在The Mothers of Invention乐队和单独发展时期制作并发行了超过60张专辑。
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, musician, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa established himself as a prolific and highly distinctive composer, electric guitar player and band leader. He worked in almost every musical genre and wrote music for rock bands, jazz ensembles, synthesizers and symphony orchestra, as well as musique concrète works constructed from pre-recorded, synthesized or sampled sources. In addition to his music recordings, he created feature-length and short films, music videos, and album covers.
1.“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.”― Frank Zappa
2.“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
3.“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
4.“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
5.“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”
6.“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
7.“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
8.“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”- from The Real Frank Zappa Book
9.“Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
10.“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.”
11.“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
12.“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.”
13.“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
14.“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.”
15.“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 theater.”
16.“Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?”
17.“I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.”
18.“There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.”
19.“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”
20.“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.”