To me absurdity is the only reality.
FRANK ZAPPAWriting about music is like dancing about architecture.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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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.
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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
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Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
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Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
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Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
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Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
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You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain’t what you’re not. So see what you got?
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I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.
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Music is always a commentary on society.
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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.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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If we can’t be free at least we can be cheap.
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Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?
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The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.
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If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.
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So many books, so little time.
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The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.
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The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.
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