Quotes from Frank Zappa

Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

who are the brain police?

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 feel a lot of people don't know what high school is - including those who are in it. My material is provided to give them some perspective. People are stupid. They never stop to question things. They just accept. Can you imagine a nation who never questions the validity of cheerleaders and pom-poms?

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 and what you don't like.

Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization — you can't just swallow it whole.

Without Louie Louie a symphony is not quite so grand.

Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart — incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.

The mind is like a parachute - it doesn't work if it's not open.

Music without the ebb and flow would be like watching a film with only good guys in it.

Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

call any vegetable, call it by name, and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you

Once upon a time Somebody say to me (This is a dog talkin' now) What is your Conceptual Continuity? Well, I told him right then (Fido said) It should be easy to see The crux of the biscuit Is the Apostrophe(')

Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?

I think that if you use the so-called strong words you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people so afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.

Music is the best.

Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.

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

The white zone is for loading and unloading only. If you gotta load or unload, go to the white zone...

After all, he wrote this book here, and in the book it says he made us all to be just like him! So if we're dumb, then God is dumb — and maybe even a little ugly on the side.

Some people... SOME PEOPLE like cupcakes better (but) I for one, could care LESS for them!

be a jerk - go to work, be a jerk - go to work, be a jerk - go to work, be a jerk - go to work, do your job, and do it right, LIFE'S A BALL, *TV* tonight.