Quotes by Frank Zappa Don't
Quotes by Frank Zappa Don't Quotes by Frank Zappa
Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
I have a message to deliver to the cute people of the world...if you're cute, or maybe you're beautiful...there's MORE OF US UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS OUT THERE THAN YOU ARE!! So watch out.
There are more love songs than anything else.
If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
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 people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them in the ass.
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business.
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.
Children are naive -- they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Thanks to our schools and political leadership, the U.S. has acquired an international reputation as the home of 250 million people dumb enough to buy 'The Wacky Wall-Walker.'
Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
``Conducting'' is when you draw ``designs'' in the nowhere -- with your stick, or with your hands -- which are interpreted as
``instructional messages'' by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.
It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner.
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if its not open.
If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.
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 find out what was going on. You could
be in the Garden of Eden if you had just keep your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
If you want to get laid, go to college, but if you want an education, go to the library.
The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.
All right, Zubin, hit it!
-->Frank's onstage cue to conductor Zubin Mehta during their collaborative effort with the L.A. Philharmonic orchestra in 1970
Whenever your down, just think about how you got there.
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