Frank Zappa Quotes
"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Design, Computer)
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Nation, states, United)
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Love, Songs)
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Life, Stupidity, Universe)
"Without deviation progress is not possible."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Progress)
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Music, Time, Production)
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Politics, Entertainment)
"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."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Beer, Country, Football, Weapons)
"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: People, Journalism, Talk)
"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Ugly, Want)
"I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Love, Will, Years)
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Musicians, Will)
"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Music, People)
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Art, Selling, Nothing)
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Work, People, Communism)
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Music, Performance, Sculpture)
"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: People)
"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Change, People, Favorite, Will)
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Education, College, Want)
"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."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Ending, Fire, Nostalgia, World)
"Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Music, People)
"Music is always a commentary on society."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Music, Society)
"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Change, Dress, Style, Will)
"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Virtue, Existence, Fact, Support)