Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear.
FRANK ZAPPAIf 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.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
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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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To me absurdity is the only reality.
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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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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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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Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
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It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
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We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
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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.
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A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
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Don’t mind your make-up, you’d better make your mind up.
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Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.
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Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
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Drugs will turn you into your parents.
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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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A composer’s job involves the decoration of fragments of time.
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The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
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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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Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
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The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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I don’t want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don’t.
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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.
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