rock journalism is people who cant't write interviewing people who cant talk for people cant read (frank Zappa)

Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read (Frank Zappa)

Frank Zappa was the father of invention, the most caustic iconoclast of the rock-and-roll era. ''My job,'' he once said, ''is extrapolating everything to its most absurd extreme.'' And Zappa, who died of prostate cancer Saturday on December 4, 1993 at age 52, clearly loved his job.

Zappa always said his life, and musical tastes, changed in 1954, when he read a Look magazine story on the Sam Goody record chain, which cited its ability to sell such ''weird'' music as ''The Complete Works of Edgar Varese, Vol. One.'' When Zappa finally found a copy, he embraced its avant-garde dissonance, though his parents would let him play it only in his room. It was there, then, that the musical mix began, for Zappa was just as deeply into Howlin’ Wolf and the Orioles

Zappa did not care at all about journalists. He would say whatever comes first from his mind. He did not care about education at all. He loved his music and he was dedicated.