Frank Vincent Zappa was an American multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. Profoundly inspirational Frank Zappa quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Frank Zappa Quotes
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open. Frank Zappa
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
Americans like to talk about or be told about Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an ‘inconvenience. We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke of a government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there. Frank Zappa Quotes
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. Frank Zappa
The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons. Frank Zappa
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open. Frank Zappa
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. Frank Zappa
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Frank Zappa,
There are only two things to remember. Number one. Don’t Stop, and number two. Keep Going! Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else’s life. Frank Zappa
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Frank Zappa
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be. Frank Zappa
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole. Frank Zappa
Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. Frank Zappa
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. Frank Zappa
It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too. Frank Zappa
Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it. Frank Zappa
I’m vile and perverted. I’m obsessed and deranged. I’ve existed for years but very little has changed. I’m the tool of the government and industry too. For I’m destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I’m pernicious, but you can’t look away. I’ll make you think I’m delicious with the stuff that I say. I’m the best you can get have you guessed me yet? I’m the slime oozing out of your TV set. Frank Zappa
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. Frank Zappa
You can bet everything will come to an end. It’s going to be ugly and it’s going to be a mess, and it’s going to be something that somebody did in the name of God. Frank Zappa
There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. Frank Zappa
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. Frank Zappa
I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you’re out there and you’re cute, maybe you’re beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin there’s more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, so watch out. Frank Zappa
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. Frank Zappa
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems. Frank Zappa
There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it’s going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it. Frank Zappa
Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I’m concerned I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or near the destination. Frank Zappa
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer. Frank Zappa
Republican is fine if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them cares. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format, and they prepare you to be a usable victim for the military industrial complex that needs manpower. Frank Zappa
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. Frank Zappa
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. Frank ZappaQuotes
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Frank Zappa
It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret. Frank Zappa
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Frank Zappa
The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows. Frank Zappa
It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I’m wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right. Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are? Frank Zappa
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. Frank Zappa
In every language, the first word after Mama! that every kid learns to say is Mine! A system that doesn’t allow ownership, that doesn’t allow you to say Mine! when you grow up, has to put in mildly a fatal design flaw. 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. Frank Zappa
I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated. Frank Zappa
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. Frank Zappa
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn’t mean they are dumber than you. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. Frank Zappa
As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you’re gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out. Frank Zappa
Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. Frank Zappa
You know, people are basically shitty. It’s when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious. Frank Zappa
I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. Frank Zappa
“The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own. Frank Zappa
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. Frank Zappa