Frank Zappa Quotes
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Zappa, Frank. Quoted in The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac, edited by Sheila E. Anderson, Skyhorse Publishing, 2003, p. 95.
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American singer-songwriter, innovative rock guitarist, modernist composer, multi-instrumentalist, satirist, film-maker, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.