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.

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

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.