Frank Zappa Quotes

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

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

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs tr...

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think,...

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agre...

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget ab...

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and...

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

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

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

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if y...

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but ...

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'Frank Zappa: 'You have a woo...

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

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as f...

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

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

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out ther...

Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going ...

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue gove...

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

For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywh...

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

Information is not knowledge.Knowledge is not wisdom.Wisdom is not truth.Truth is not beauty.Beauty ...

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher,...

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...

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

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

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

So many books, so little time.

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capab...

Music is always a commentary on society.

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...