Frank Zappa Quotes
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King of kings, that must be Elvis.
— Frank Zappa
Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.
— Gail Zappa
Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.
— 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've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.
— Frank Zappa
My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.
— Frank Zappa
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
— Frank Zappa
Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.
— Frank Zappa
I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.
— Frank Zappa
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
— Frank Zappa
I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric
— Frank Zappa
You're baloney without the mayo.
— Frank Zappa
You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.
— Frank Zappa
I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed.
— Frank Zappa
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
— Frank Zappa
I want a horny little Jewish princess.
— Frank Zappa
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
— Bill Hader
The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you ... and then, the worse things get.
— Frank Zappa
Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.
— Frank Zappa
Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
— Frank Zappa
Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.
— Frank Zappa
Tighten my headband for an extra rush.
— Frank Zappa
Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?
— Frank Zappa
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.
— 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
So many books, so little time.
— Frank Zappa
Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.
— Frank Zappa
I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.
— Frank Zappa
Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
— Frank Zappa
Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
— Frank Zappa
Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.
— Frank Zappa
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.
— Frank Zappa
Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
— Frank Zappa
He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.
— Frank Zappa
If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.
— Frank Zappa
Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
— Frank Zappa
Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.
— Frank Zappa
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.
— Frank Zappa
On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.
— Frank Zappa
The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad ...
— Frank Zappa
Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?
— Frank Zappa
To me absurdity is the only reality
— Frank Zappa
She use to knock me out until her face broke out.
— Frank Zappa
Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa
— John Powell
Well Mike, I'm abnormal.
— Frank Zappa
Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.
— Frank Zappa
Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.
— Frank Zappa
You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.
— Frank Zappa
Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.
— Frank Zappa
Don't do speed, speed turns you in to your parents.
— Frank Zappa
Without deviation progress is not possible.
— Frank Zappa
There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
— Frank Zappa
I want a girl that can swallow my pride.
— Frank Zappa
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
— Frank Zappa
If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you
— Frank Zappa
I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set!
— Frank Zappa
Jazz is the music of unemployment.
— Frank Zappa
May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
— Frank Zappa
Call any vegetable,
call it by name,
and the chances are good
that the vegetable will respond to you — Frank Zappa
call it by name,
and the chances are good
that the vegetable will respond to you — Frank Zappa
The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity
— Frank Zappa
I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.
— Frank Zappa
There is no hell. There is only France.
— Frank Zappa
This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.
— Frank Zappa
If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.
— Frank Zappa
We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
— Frank Zappa
If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.
— Frank Zappa
The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.
— Frank Zappa
The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.
— Frank Zappa