Frank Zappa Quotes

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to fi...

Music is always a commentary on society.

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.

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.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you l...

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like a...

If 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.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.