Art is making something out of nothing and selling... -Frank Zappa

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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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Frank Zappa was an American musician, composer, and bandleader, known for his eclectic and experimental music and his contributions to the rock and jazz genres.

Frank Zappa Quotes to Explore

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows....
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry....
Music is always a commentary on society....
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass....
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid....
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something....
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another....
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to....
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....
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library....

Art Quotes to Explore

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...