Frank Zappa
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.Collection: Time
Music is always a commentary on society.Collection: Society
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.Collection: Music
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.Collection: Art
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.Collection: Music
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.Collection: Music
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Change
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.Collection: Music
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.Collection: Work
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.Collection: Change
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.Collection: Education
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.Collection: Politics
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.
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
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.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Without deviation progress is not possible.
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.
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.Collection: Inspirational
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.Collection: Music Is
The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.Collection: Neutrons
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.Collection: Wall
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.Collection: Government
There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!Collection: Two
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.Collection: Positive
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.Collection: Funny Life
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.Collection: Atheist
I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too. For I'm destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away. I'll make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say. I'm the best you can get... have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozing out of your TV set.Collection: Thinking
Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.Collection: Ignorance
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Love
Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.Collection: Inspirational
One and one is eleven.Collection: Dense
It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.Collection: Regret
Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.Collection: Modern
Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.Collection: Nice
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.Collection: Media
You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.Collection: People
I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.Collection: Religious
Information doesn't kill you.Collection: Atheism
They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.Collection: School
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.Collection: Inspirational
I mean, let's look at it in the other way. If they claim that words have this mysterious power over people, well, 99 percent of on the songs on the radio deal with the topic of love and we use the term loosely. So, kids have heard love, love, love, love ... the minute they turn on the radio. Do you see any kids doing love? I see them doing crack ... but not love. So, it's bullshit!Collection: Song