Frank Zappa Quotes (46 Quotes)


    Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

    I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa.

    There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

    It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

    My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.


    The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

    People, wake up Figure it out Religious fanatics Around and about The Court House, The State House, The Congress, The White House Criminal saints With a Heavenly Mission - A nation enraptured By pure superstition

    If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state

    Anything, Any time, Anywhere - for no Reason at All.

    Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

    All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

    No, I don't think people really give a shit about that (meeting one's maker) unless they're completely bamboozled by religious superstition - to live your life in planning for this good time you're going to have in the sky

    Without deviation progress is not possible.

    I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss

    Do you love it - do you hate it There it is the way you made it

    Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''

    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.

    You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

    A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

    Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

    Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

    A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

    If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep

    I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist - in exchange for a promise

    Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

    Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

    The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

    Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

    There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

    If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

    Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not

    I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

    The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting literally for other arts figuratively - because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a box around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall

    Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

    If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine- but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good- and cares about any of it- to han

    In a fight between you and the world, pick the world

    The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business

    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.

    It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity

    No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

    Music is always a commentary on society.

    The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

    Some people crave baseball - I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon.

    Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

    Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

    I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.


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