Frank Zappa

“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.” – Frank Zappa

 

 

Frank Zappa
with the London Symphony Orchestra
January 1983

Anthony Braxton

“My friends call me Anthony ‘Beefheart Boy’ Braxton!” he says cheerfully.

“He was totally creative,” Braxton says of the late Captain Beefheart. “His compositions were outrageously beautiful and original. His ensemble was really special. Some people talk of Captain Beefheart as a far-out rock musician, but when I think of Beethoven, Duke Ellington, [saxophonist] Paul Desmond and Frankie Lymon, I can easily put Captain Beefheart in with my heroes and heroines.”

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….by the way, I’m a composer too.

Ornette Coleman

“I’m not interested in music, I’m interested in sound.” – Ornette Coleman

photo Andrea Boccalini

….by the way, I’m a composer too.

Terry Riley

“Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.”
– Terry Riley

Bill Evans

“Music should enrich the soul; it should teach spirituality by showing a person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise. It’s easy to rediscover part of yourself, but through art you can be shown part of yourself you never knew existed. That’s the real mission of art. The artist has to find something within himself that’s universal and which he can put into terms that are communicable to other people. The magic of it is that art can communicate to a person without his realizing it… enrichment, that’s the function of music.” – Bill Evans


….by the way, I’m a composer too.

Joe Frank

“I came out of the woods in front of a diner, a beat-up truck parked next to a gas pump, two children playing in the dirt, and a dog chained to a coke machine. I walked in and saw a man dressed as a clown reading the Bible. He motioned to me to sit down next to him, and when I did he leaned forward as if to whisper something to me, and a spray of water shot out of the flower in his lapel and into my eyes.” – Joe Frank

….by the way, I’m a composer too.