Quotes from Frank Zappa

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.

It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work, and the other is nostalgia.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Work is the only reason I leave home. I`m not a tourist. I don`t travel for pleasure. I don`t take vacations. I only leave the house when I have something to do.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open.

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?

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

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 like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

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

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.

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk in order to provide articles for people who can't read.

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

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

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!

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

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.