Frank Zappa

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

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

Some people. Some people like cupcakes exclusively while myself I say There is naught nor ought there be nothing so exalted on the face of gods grey earth as that prince of foods. the muffin

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

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.

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

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

Communism doesnt work because people like to own stuff.

Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of looked good and later after an evening of chemical alteration everybody looked even better and the next thing they knew they were getting The Blox Job.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

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

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.

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

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

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

A wise man once said never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Theres 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.

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

Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.

A composers job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Music is always a commentary on society.

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.

You cant be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons but at the very least you need a beer.

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

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

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

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

If classical music is the state of the art then the arts are in a sad state.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

You cant 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.

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

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

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.