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King of kings, that must be Elvis. — Frank Zappa

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral. — Moon Unit Zappa

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life. — Frank Zappa

You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal. — Frank Zappa

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal. — Dweezil Zappa

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically. — Frank Zappa

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu. — Frank Zappa

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray. — Frank Zappa

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

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America. — Gail 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

It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money. — Frank Zappa

On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio. — Dweezil Zappa

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here. — Moon Unit Zappa

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible. — Moon Unit Zappa

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick. — Ahmet Zappa

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing. — Dweezil Zappa

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after. — Moon Unit Zappa

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves. — Moon Unit Zappa

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

They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse. — Frank Zappa

I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have. — Gail Zappa

All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed. — 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

Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass. — Frank Zappa

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

There is no hell, there's only France — 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

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something. — Moon Unit Zappa

There is no hell. There is only France. — Frank Zappa

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

This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it. — Frank Zappa

Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line. — Frank Zappa

Jazz is the music of unemployment. — 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

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

I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers. — Frank Zappa

Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white — 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

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were. — Neil Innes

Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition. — Frank Zappa

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. — Frank Zappa

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. — Frank Zappa

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? — Frank Zappa

It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on. — Frank Zappa

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians. — Dweezil Zappa

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great. — Frank Zappa

There will never be a nuclear war; there's too much real estate involved. — Frank Zappa

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight. — Frank Zappa

This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb. — Frank Zappa

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous. — Gail Zappa

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of. — Jimmy Carl Black

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job. — Gail Zappa

It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret. — Frank Zappa

Left me here to cry alone with a bottle of juice and pork chop bone. — Frank Zappa

Well Mike, I'm abnormal. — Frank Zappa

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced. — Frank Zappa

Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty. — Frank Zappa

Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die. — Frank Zappa

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad. — Moon Unit Zappa

You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious. — Frank Zappa

On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low. — Frank Zappa

And nobody knows where her new dorm room is - or even if she has one." She shook her head. "It's a mystery. — Shana Muldoon Zappa

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom. — Frank Zappa

I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do. — Frank Zappa

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone. — Ahmet Zappa

Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa — John Powell

If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all. — Dweezil 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

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white. — Frank Zappa

Without deviation progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa

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

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. — 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

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden. — Moon Unit Zappa

Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with. — Moon Unit Zappa

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. — Frank Zappa

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy. — Frank Zappa

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement. — Frank Zappa

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep. — Frank Zappa

The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on. — Frank Zappa

I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content. — Gail 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

I'm game for anything fun. — Dweezil Zappa

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress. — Frank Zappa

The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned. — Frank Zappa

Watch out where the Huskies go
And don't you eat that yellow snow — Frank Zappa

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. — Frank Zappa

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

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment. — Frank Zappa

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad ... — Frank Zappa

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

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible. — Ahmet Zappa

She use to knock me out until her face broke out. — Frank Zappa