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 ZAPPASo many books, so little time.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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If you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you.
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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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You can bet everything will come to an end. It’s going to be ugly and it’s going to be a mess, and it’s going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.
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Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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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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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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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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There are only two things to remember. Number one: Don’t Stop, and number two: Keep going!
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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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A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.
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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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Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
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Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.
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May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
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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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If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.
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Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
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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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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
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The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.
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It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
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