Frank Zappa Quotes

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.

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

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

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

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

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

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

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

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

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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

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

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

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

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

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

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

So many books, so little time.

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

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

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

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

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

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.

Information is not knowledge.Knowledge is not wisdom.Wisdom is not truth.Truth is not beauty.Beauty is not love.Love is not music.Music is THE BEST.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

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

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