Quotes from Frank Zappa

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them. — My Dad (something he told me when I was a kid)

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.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

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.

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.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

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.

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.

Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have that.

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.

Wowie zowie, love me do. Wowie zowie, and I'll love you, too.

Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don't ever go.

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.

I hit you and I beat you and I told you that I love you.

Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny

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