Famous Frank Zappa Quotations

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"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
by Frank Zappa
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
by Frank Zappa
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
by Frank Zappa
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
by Frank Zappa
"Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system."
by Frank Zappa
"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
by Frank Zappa
"Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
by Frank Zappa
"Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys."
by Scott Ian
"I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy."
by Frank Zappa
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library."
by Frank Zappa
"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice -- there are two other possibilities one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
by Frank Zappa
"Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read."
by Frank Zappa
"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."
by Frank Zappa
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."
by Frank Zappa
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
by Frank Zappa
"Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not."
by Frank Zappa
"The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work."
by Frank Zappa
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
by Frank Zappa
"The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced."
by Frank Zappa
"There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life."
by Frank Zappa
"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER"
by Frank Zappa
"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER."
by Frank Zappa
"I remember reading that scientists once believed the universe was made of hydrogen, because it was the most plentiful ingredient found. If that theory holds any truth, then I believe it to be made of stupidity."
by Frank Zappa
"Rock journalism is people who can't write talking to people who can't talk for people who can't read."
by Frank Zappa
"A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole."
by Frank Zappa
"Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is bad."
by Frank Zappa
"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."
by Frank Zappa
"I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa."
by Frank Zappa
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
by Frank Zappa
"The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made."
by Frank Zappa
"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to."
by Frank Zappa
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."
by Frank Zappa
"The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open."
by Frank Zappa or Taffee Marchant
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
by Frank Zappa


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