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Packard Goose, Album: Joe's Garage Act III. Übersetzung: Benutzer:Hei ber
Original engl.: "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"
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„Jazz ist nicht tot, er riecht nur komisch.“
aus: "Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church)" auf dem Live-Album "Roxy & Elsewhere". Übersetzung: Benutzer:Hei ber
Original engl.: "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny."
„Tabak ist mein Lieblingsgemüse.“
Interview für NBC von Jamie Gangel in der "Today Show" 1993, online auf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDYzuwG-gOE . Übersetzung: Benutzer "F.Blaubiget"
Original engl.: "Tobacco is my favorite vegetable."
„Politik ist die Unterhaltungsabteilung der Wirtschaft.“
RockHEAD, Vol. 17, No. 4, Summer 1990, Online auf afka.net http://www.afka.net/Mags/RockHEAD.htm. Übersetzung: Benutzer:Hei ber <br class="br">Original engl.: What I always say is that politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa: Zitate auf Englisch
Variante: 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.
“Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.”
Interview on the Today Show NBC (1993).
Quelle: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 239; this may be derived from a similar observation by Harlan Ellison which is sometimes misattributed to Zappa: "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
“The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.”
In response to Joe Walsh on The Howard Stern Show (1987).
"Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa", in MOJO magazine (October 1993).
“A wise man once said, "never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment."”
Interview with Grace Slick on Rockplace (11 February 1984).
“If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.”
To tourists at the Whisky-a-Go-Go, Los Angeles CA, December 1965
Liner notes for the album Freak Out! (27 June 1966).
Quelle: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 162.
“The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.”
Interview on London Plus (24 September 1984) - YouTube video http://youtube.com/watch?v=CR2N040drg0
Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)
Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto (May 1969).
“I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.”
Interview on Nationwide (1 July 1983).
Oui interview (1979)
“The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic … in terms of music history.”
Interview (5 March 1969) http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/t-z, broadcast on Pop Chronicles, Show 14 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Phil Spector & Frank Zappa review the '50s http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19763/m1/
Quelle: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 203.
As quoted in No Commercial Potential : The Saga of Frank Zappa (1972) by David Walley, p. 4.
